Git Good: an Introduction to GitHub for Collaboration

Collaborative GitHub training course for Turing Widening participation summer school.

Course covers:

• Part 1: What is Git & Github?

• Github Exercise 1: Finding an Issue and contributing to a project.

• You will practice: Using issues to contribute and document decisions

• Part 2: What is open source?

• Github Exercise 2: Editing a file and making a Pull Request.

• You will practice: Markdown; contributing, pull requests

• Part 3: What can we make with Github?

• Bonus Exercise 3: Make your own website

Resources include presentation slides and handouts for help and exercises.