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Gain an in-depth introduction to remote collaboration with Git
Git is an enormously powerful and flexible version control system used by over 90% of developers.
On this course, you’ll discover ways to visualise and explore a project’s history through Git repositories. These skills will allow you to quickly adapt to a new collaborative environment, especially when working with Git remotely.
Collaborate on Git projects of any scale while maintaining high code quality
Led by experts at the University of Manchester, you’ll learn techniques like code review to ensure safe code changes, maintain high-quality code, and keep consistent coding styles across large teams.
By exploring Git as a quality assurance tool, you’ll discover how to use it to facilitate team learning, and further improve your collaboration, workflows, and code quality.
Build your understanding of Git commands and the system structure to easily solve issues in Git
This course will expand your knowledge of the underlying structure that powers Git, which will allow you to more easily solve problems when something goes wrong.
By building a solid understanding of how to use Git in collaboration with a team, you’ll discover how to benefit most from its features and improve overall code quality.
Explore Git’s capabilities with leading software engineers
This practical Git course has been developed by The University of Manchester, who have a long-established history of teaching software engineering and conducting research into the field.
Professional software engineers and consultants will guide you through the course to help you discover how you can make Git work best for you and your team.[Git Logo by Jason Long. Licensed under the CC Attribution 3.0 Unported License.]
This course is designed for anyone involved in software development projects looking to improve code quality and collaboration using Git. You might also be interested if you wish to contribute to mainstream open-source projects.
Installing a recent version of Git will allow you to take part in activities and make the most of the course.
Overview
Syllabus
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- Onboarding with Git
- Welcome to the course
- Visualising a project's history
- Cloning your first repository
- Practice your skills: Code Orienteering
- Practice your skills: "You're Hired!"
- Summary of the week
- Weekly Q&A Session
- Optional: Industry interview
- Recording code changes
- Overview of the week
- How does Git actually work?
- Checking out
- Making a commit
- Practice your skills: Commit Copycat!
- Practice your skills: Who's the Git?
- Summary of the week
- Weekly Q&A session
- Working separately from your team
- Overview of the week
- Ways of working with Git
- Creating your own Git repositories
- Practice your skills: Commit Copycat!
- Pushing
- Code Review
- Optional: Industry interview
- Summary of the week
- Weekly Q&A Session
- Test
- Synchronising with your team
- Overview of the week
- Merging
- Rebasing
- Undoing changes
- Practice your skills: Commit Copycat!
- Summary of the week
- Weekly Q&A Session
- Integrating the work of the entire team
- Overview of the week
- Conflict resolution
- Manipulating the code change history
- Undoing changes with revert
- Practice your skills: Commit Copycat!
- Summary of the week
- Weekly Q&A session
- Git like a professional: Best practices for Git and Git workflows
- Overview of the week
- Best practices
- Git Workflows
- Optional: Industry Interview
- Advanced techniques
- Open Source Licensing: Who owns your code?
- Summary of the week
- Final task and Q&A session
- Test
