Git and GitHub for Data Professionals

Course details

This course is a practical guide to data workflows, collaboration, and version control using Git and GitHub, Learn how to create repositories, commit changes, and resolve conflicts, ensuring you and your team can work together efficiently. Explore the differences between Git and GitHub to understand how they interact to manage your code. See how to integrate Git and GitHub with Visual Studio Code for a more seamless coding experience. Identify common pitfalls like merge conflicts and discover how to resolve them effectively. Whether you are a data scientist, data analyst, or software engineer, by the end of the course, you'll be more equipped to manage data workflows and improve the version control of code.

Concepts

Introduction

Course introductions

Introduction to Git and GitHub

What is version control
What is Git
Git vs. GitHub

Fundamentals of Git

Installing and setting up Git
Basic Git workflow
Git init
Git add and commit
Accessing previous commits in Git

Getting into GitHub

Creating a GitHub account and connecting to Git
GitHub terms to know
GitHub UI walkthrough
Commits and issues
Pull requests
Releases and projects

Git and GitHub Workflow

Getting files from GitHub onto local machine
Branching and pushing to GitHub
Git fetch and merge
Resolving merge conflicts

Working with VS Code, Git, and GitHub

VS Code repositories
Commits and branches
Changing code and gutter system
Fixing mistakes

Congratulations

Congratulations