August 2024
Beginner
2h 10m
English
on-demand course
Git for Complete Beginners: A Visual Learning Journey for the Basics of Git
with Anna Skoulikari
Closed Captioning available in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
Overview
In this course, you will learn the basics of Git, a version control system used by programmers and tech professionals worldwide. Git is ubiquitous but a lot of people struggle to learn how to use it properly. Designed for complete beginners, this course teaches Git in a very simple, visual, and tangible way to make it much easier to learn.
You will learn how to use basic Git commands to version control a project and collaborate with other people on a project. Join Git basics educator Anna Skoulikari to understand how Git works and gain a solid mental model of the basics.
What you’ll learn and how to apply it- By the end of this course, you should be able to use basic Git commands to version control a project and collaborate with other people on a project.
- You are a computer science university student who needs to learn Git.
- You are a programmer, junior developer, technical writer, or product manager whose team is migrating to using Git.
- You need to learn Git in order to work on your own personal coding projects.
Prerequisites
- No prior experience is necessary, this course starts from zero knowledge. You don’t even need to know how to use the terminal and you don’t need to know how to code as no code is included in the course.
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