Название: GitHub For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Автор: Sarah Guthals
Издательство: For Dummies
Год: 2023
Страниц: 355
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 60.5 MB

Get more out of your coding with GitHub.

Welcome to the world of collaborative coding! Whether you’re just starting your coding journey, building fairly complex programs, or building with a team of people, this book guides you in using one of the most used tools for collaborative code-writing: GitHub.com. With more than 83 million users and over 130 million repositories (projects) hosted, GitHub.com is the No. 1 place to build and collaborate on code.

For today’s coders, GitHub is a must. The world’s largest software development platform, GitHub helps developers store, track, and collaborate on software projects. In this easy-to-follow Dummies guide, you’ll find insight into creating repositories, establishing projects, collaborating, incorporating open-source resources, and establishing yourself as a valued member of the GitHub community. With a working knowledge of GitHub, you’ll be a better, more employable programmer. The simple instructions and interactive examples in this book will get you there quickly.

Though you spend many hours sitting at your computer, alone, debugging and writing code, the ideal coding team includes more than just you. Hundreds of developers spent more than four years building World of Warcraft before its first release in 2004. Although occasionally you can build a big hit like Wordle alone in a couple of days, the norm for software development is that you will work with other coders, designers, testers, user experience experts, product managers, and sometimes hardware engineers to bring something to the hands of users.

When you’re first starting out on complex coding projects, understanding effective ways to collaborate can be daunting. This book introduces you to the world of open source development (the epitome of collaboration), as well as effective ways to work with one other person — or even yourself over the course of many years! (I don’t know about you, but Sarah from three years ago knows stuff that Sarah from today can’t remember, and Sarah from today has more experience than Sarah from three years ago.) GitHub For Dummies is written as a reference guide. Each part introduces you to a different aspect of collaborative coding.

Get the instructions you need for using GitHub to collaborate on software projects
Become more attractive to employers with knowledge and experience in the largest development platform
Set up GitHub Desktop, create a repository, and launch your first project
Use GitHub Skills courses to learn new tricks, for beginners to pros

You’ve learned how to write a little code―now learn how to share it with GitHub.