Module content: Introduction to GitHub
Description: This brief module provides step-by-step instructions that give newcomers a surface-level introduction to using and understanding GitHub. It includes instructions for creating a GitHub account and repository, learning how to commit changes, and turning on GitHub Pages.
Objectives:
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Create a GitHub account and public repository
- Create a commit and a quality commit message
- View git history to see changes to the repository and git diff to see changes to files
- Create an issue in a GitHub repository
- Find and add collaborators in a repository
Time to complete: 30 minutes
Audience: undergraduate students; graduate students; faculty; information professionals
Get Started: Follow instructions in the Introduction to GitHub module
External Resources:
- GitHub Guides "Hello World" Introduction
- GitHub Learning Lab
- Introduction to GitHub (part of the go-go gh-pages! workshop)