Applied GitHub Platform

Optimize Your Development Workflow with GitHub Mastery Our in-depth GitHub course enables you to:

• Increase productivity with GitHub Copilot's AI-powered code completion
• Manage web-based development environments using GitHub Codespaces
• Automate tasks like building, testing, and deploying with GitHub Actions
• Securely handle secrets and credentials for seamless integrations
• Implement continuous delivery pipelines for efficient deployments
• Validate and manage containerization as part of your CI/CD workflows
• Earn prestigious GitHub certifications to showcase your expertise

Benefits for Learners:

• Optimize development workflows and improve code quality
• Deploy applications faster and more efficiently
• Become a valuable asset to your team and organization
• Enhance your career prospects in software development

What Sets This Course Apart:

• Comprehensive, one-stop-shop for mastering GitHub's powerful features
• Deep dive into advanced use cases and real-world examples
• Taught by experienced industry professionals with hands-on guidance
• Opportunity to earn GitHub certifications and validate your skills

Elevate your development capabilities with our GitHub Mastery course.

Week 1: Getting Started with GitHub and Visual Studio Code

• Introduction to the course and instructor
• Installing and setting up Visual Studio Code
• Integrating Visual Studio Code with GitHub
• Using Visual Studio Code on the web
• Installing the GitHub Copilot extension
• Introduction to GitHub Codespaces
• Running default and customized Codespaces
• Configuring the development environment and editor in Codespaces
• Autosave, timeouts, and lifecycle management in Codespaces
• Enabling, validating, and disabling GitHub Copilot

Week 2: Leveraging GitHub Copilot for Efficient Development

• Introduction to context and its importance in GitHub Copilot
• Enhancing code suggestions with context
• Using comments as prompts for GitHub Copilot
• Improving prompts by specifying requirements
• Writing unit tests and documenting existing code with GitHub Copilot
• Using inline mode and refining suggestions from inline chat
• Introduction to agents in GitHub Copilot
• Using slash commands and the workspace agent in GitHub Copilot

Week 3: Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

• Introduction to GitHub Actions
• Adding GitHub Actions to a project
• Core components of GitHub Actions
• Triggers for a workflow
• Working with log output
• Defining tasks for a workflow
• Testing and linting on pull requests
• Verifying containerization
• Overview of a continuous delivery project
• When to automatically deploy
• Using secrets in GitHub Actions
• Deploying a repository as a website

Week 4: Advanced Topics and Real-World Applications

• Introduction to robust software projects
• Overview of a robust project structure
• Identifying and working through a work item
• Reviewing and verifying changes
• Creating and configuring an Azure Container App
• Deploying a Hugging Face model to Azure
• Troubleshooting container deployment
• Introduction to GitHub Certifications