Remote Course for GH-900: GitHub Foundations

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Target Audience
Certificates

GitHub Foundations introduces you to the fundamental concepts, features, and products of GitHub. You’ll discover the benefits of using GitHub as a collaborative platform and explore its core features, such as repository management, commits, branches, and merging. Through curated modules and hands-on exercises, you’ll gain a solid understanding of GitHub’s essential tools and be well-equipped to start contributing to projects and collaborating effectively within GitHub.

Course Content

Learning Path 1: GitHub Foundations (Part 1 of 2)

The GitHub Foundations Learning Path Part 1 of 2 is a concise and beginner-friendly journey designed to introduce you to the fundamental concepts and products of GitHub. You’ll discover the benefits of using GitHub as a collaborative platform and explore its core features, such as repository management, commits, branches, and merging.

In this learning path, you’ll:

Gain an understanding of GitHub’s essential tools
Become familiar with Git
Learn about GitHub Copilot

Modules included:

Module 1: Introduction to Git
Find out what source control is, and get an introduction to Git—the world’s most popular version control system. This module explains basic concepts such as repositories, commits, and version history.

Module 2: Introduction to GitHub
Learn to use key GitHub features, including issues, notifications, branches, commits, and pull requests. Understand how GitHub enhances collaboration and team workflows.

Module 3: Introduction to GitHub’s products
Provides an overview of GitHub products, including account types, plan options, associated features, and billing. Also covers accessing GitHub on-the-go using GitHub Desktop and GitHub Mobile.

Module 4: Configure code scanning on GitHub
Introduces code scanning and its features. Learn to implement code scanning using CodeQL, third-party tools, and GitHub Actions to identify potential vulnerabilities in your code.

Module 5: Introduction to GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot uses OpenAI Codex to suggest code and entire functions in real time directly in your editor, helping to speed up coding and reduce errors.

Module 6: Code with GitHub Codespaces
Learn about GitHub Codespaces, a fully configured cloud-hosted development environment. Explore how to access your workspace from anywhere and maintain consistent development setups.

Module 7: Manage your work with GitHub Projects
Learn to use GitHub Projects to organize work, create issues, break them into tasks, track progress, add custom fields, and collaborate effectively with your team.

Module 8: Communicate effectively on GitHub using Markdown
Understand how to use Markdown to write clear, structured, and expressive content for issues, pull requests, documentation, and team communication.

Learning Path 2: GitHub Foundations (Part 2 of 2)

The GitHub Foundations Learning Path Part 2 of 2 continues the beginner-friendly journey, focusing on practical contributions, repository management, security, and using GitHub Copilot with Python.

In this learning path, you’ll:

Gain an understanding of GitHub’s essential tools
Become familiar with Git
Learn about GitHub Copilot

Modules included:

Module 1: Contribute to an open-source project on GitHub
Learn how to find open-source projects, submit pull requests, and collaborate with maintainers. Discover the benefits of contributing to open-source communities.

Module 2: Manage an InnerSource program by using GitHub
Learn to manage InnerSource programs effectively within your organization, ensuring discoverability, proper guidance, and maintenance.

Module 3: Maintain a secure repository by using GitHub best practices
Understand best practices for building, hosting, and maintaining a secure repository, including permissions and security checks.

Module 4: Introduction to GitHub administration
Explore security and control measures available to GitHub administrators within an organization or enterprise. Learn about roles, policies, and access management.

Module 5: Authenticate and authorize user identities on GitHub
Overview of authentication and authorization options in GitHub, including managing identities, access tokens, and SSO integrations.

Module 6: Manage repository changes by using pull requests on GitHub
Learn how to use pull requests effectively to review, approve, and merge changes to your repositories while maintaining code quality.

Module 7: Search and organize repository history by using GitHub
Learn techniques for searching repository history, using blame and cross-linking, and organizing code for better maintainability.

Module 8: Using GitHub Copilot with Python

Explore GitHub Copilot’s AI-assisted coding for Python projects. Learn to generate code, autocomplete functions, and enhance productivity while coding in Python.

This course in intended for students who want to understand and GitHub best practices. You will understand the fundamental features of GitHub, learn about repository management, gain an understanding of the GitHub flow, including branches, commits, and pull requests. Additionally, you will explore the collaborative features of GitHub by reviewing issues and discussions and be able to manage your GitHub notifications and subscriptions.

After completing the GH‑900: GitHub Foundations course, learners receive a Microsoft Certification, which officially recognizes their ability to use GitHub effectively for collaborative software development.

Description

Content

Course Content

Learning Path 1: GitHub Foundations (Part 1 of 2)

In this learning path, you’ll:

Gain an understanding of GitHub’s essential tools
Become familiar with Git
Learn about GitHub Copilot

Modules included:

Module 5: Introduction to GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot uses OpenAI Codex to suggest code and entire functions in real time directly in your editor, helping to speed up coding and reduce errors.

Learning Path 2: GitHub Foundations (Part 2 of 2)

The GitHub Foundations Learning Path Part 2 of 2 continues the beginner-friendly journey, focusing on practical contributions, repository management, security, and using GitHub Copilot with Python.

In this learning path, you’ll:

Gain an understanding of GitHub’s essential tools
Become familiar with Git
Learn about GitHub Copilot

Modules included:

Module 2: Manage an InnerSource program by using GitHub
Learn to manage InnerSource programs effectively within your organization, ensuring discoverability, proper guidance, and maintenance.

Module 5: Authenticate and authorize user identities on GitHub
Overview of authentication and authorization options in GitHub, including managing identities, access tokens, and SSO integrations.

Module 7: Search and organize repository history by using GitHub
Learn techniques for searching repository history, using blame and cross-linking, and organizing code for better maintainability.

Module 8: Using GitHub Copilot with Python

Explore GitHub Copilot’s AI-assisted coding for Python projects. Learn to generate code, autocomplete functions, and enhance productivity while coding in Python.

Target Audience

Certificates

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