DST4L

GitHub Foundations: Discovering the GitHub collaboration platform

September 10, 2015 - 10am-5pm

Presenters

• Vitor Monteiro - Sales Engineer @ GitHub
• Brandon Ferguson - Enterprise Product Developer @ GitHub

Pre-requisites

• A Laptop
• A GitHub account
• GitHub Desktop installed (for Unix users simply install Git)
• Optionally install Atom as a text editor

Agenda

1. Introductions

2. What is Git

3. Version Control and Git

4. Hands-on Git with GitHub for Desktop

5. GitHub

6. Product Overview

7. More than just code

8. Working with GitHub

9. Working on your own GitHub project

10. Contributing to open source projects

11. Last assignment 1. Fork 2. Clone on Desktop 3. Create branch 4. Sync 5. Create pull request

12. Why communities are important and the role of GitHub

13. How can you start using Git & GitHub today?

14. Q/A