Craft a Great GitHub Profile

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

Tags

GitHub Courses Git Courses Version Control Courses Personal Branding Courses Markdown Courses Open Source Courses

Course Description

Overview

Learn how to transform your stock GitHub profile into a page that will stand out to potential employers.

Syllabus

Introduction

Create a great GitHub profile
About using GitHub

1. Update Default Profile

Default GitHub profile
Profile image and data
Additional profile information
Before and after for default profile

2. Pin Key Repositories

Types of repositories
Forking interesting repositories
Pinning repositories
Before and after for pinned repositories

3. Contribute Code

Naming repositories effectively
Repository metadata
Creating README.md files
Before and after for your repositories

4. Create a Custom Profile

Creating a profile repository
Modifying the GitHub profile template
Personalizing your custom profile
Before and after for custom profile

Conclusion

Next steps with GitHub

Taught by

Lynn Langit

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