Course Overview

In this mini session we'll go through the basics of Git and GitHub.

Before the tutorial

• You should have ideally created a GitHub Account, click here to create one now if not

• You can also setup 2 factor authentication for your GitHub account which is recommended. I like to use the Google Authenticator app to do this but there are many other viable options.

During the tutorial we'll switch back and forth between

1. A powerpoint presentation.
2. A hands on session where we can refer to this document for tips and some code blocks that we can copy-paste.

We'll begin with the powerpoint.

After the tutorial

The best way to get comfortable with Git and GitHub is to start using them. Try it out on an existing or new project.

I can also very strongly recommend (as I took it a while ago) this tutorial on Git and GitHub from CodeRefinery. These are run occasionally in Uppsala (click here to see upcoming CodeRefinery events). It's much more thorough than this as well.

This book (available online and free) is essentially the ultimate resource for Git.