Introducing GitHub Skills - Everything you need to learn about GitHub and Get Started
GitHub Blog, have launched GitHub Skills platform, a new learning experience designed to support you on your GitHub journey. You can start to learn everything from scratch and no experience required.
What Is GitHub? A Beginner's Introduction to GitHub
GitHub is a website and cloud-based service that allows developers to store and manage their code, as well as track and control changes to their code, at a high level. To fully grasp what GitHub is, you must first comprehend the with following statement:
Git is a version control system.
There's always more to learn and discover on GitHub, no matter where we are in our GitHub journey.
If you're new to GitHub, you'll want to know where to begin.
If you're a long-time GitHub user, you'll want to keep up with what's new with the platform.
This platform has provided various resources in the past, such as the Learning Lab and explainer videos, but it's strongly recommended and believed to be the best place to learn GitHub is on GitHub.
Introducing GitHub Skills
GitHub Skills, which is backed by GitHub Actions, meets you where you are and helps you gain new skills while also making GitHub development more efficient. If you want to develop a site for your open source project or a personal blog, for example, you can take the "GitHub Pages" course and have your site up and running in under an hour.
How does it work?
For a seamless, quick, and customized learning experience, GitHub Skills is developed using GitHub Actions.
From "Introduction to GitHub" to "Continuous integration," we're beginning with courses on some of the most popular subjects.
You may also create your own courses for your project, team, or corporation using our free, open source course template.
Taking a GitHub Skills course is free in public repositories and on self-hosted runners since GitHub Skills runs on GitHub Actions.
If you wish to utilize GitHub Skills in a private repository, you can do so for free until your monthly GitHub Actions minutes are used up.
Learning Lab will be deprecated on September 1, 2022 as part of this rollout. We recommend switching to GitHub Skills right now for the most up-to-date material and learning experience.
Try exploring GitHub Skills right now.
The Courses:
1. First day on GitHub
Introduction to GitHub Get started using GitHub in less than an hour.
Communicate using Markdown Organize ideas and collaborate using Markdown, a lightweight language for text formatting.
GitHub Pages Create a site or blog from your GitHub repositories with GitHub Pages.
2. First week on GitHub
Review pull requests Collaborate and work together on GitHub.
Resolve merge conflicts Learn why conflicts happen and how to resolve them.
3. Automate workflows with GitHub Actions
Hello GitHub Actions Create a GitHub Action and use it in a workflow.
Continuous integration Create workflows that enable you to use Continuous Integration (CI) for your projects.
Publish packages Use GitHub Actions to publish your project to a Docker image.
GitHub Skills Quickstart Guide
Have an idea for a course? Build your own with our quickstart guide.
GitHub Skills Quickstart Guide
This guide covers planning your course, building your course, and best practices for GitHub Actions-powered courses.
And also, take a look at this GitHub Skills courses for examples and templates.