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| 1 | +# Course description |
1 | 2 | People use GitHub to build some of the most advanced technologies in the world. Whether you’re visualizing data or building a new game, there’s a whole community and set of tools on GitHub that can help you do it even better. |
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3 | 4 | Now, with GitHub Learning Lab, you’ve got a sidekick along your path to becoming an all-star developer. |
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5 | 6 | From managing notifications to merging pull requests, GitHub Learning Lab’s “Introduction to GitHub” course guides you through everything you need to start contributing in less than an hour. See a word you don't understand? We've included an emoji 📖 next to some key terms. Click on it to see its definition. |
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7 | | -In this course, you’ll learn how to: |
| 8 | +# What you'll learn |
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| 10 | +We'll answer common questions like: |
| 11 | +- What is GitHub? |
| 12 | +- How does one use GitHub? |
| 13 | +- What are issues and pull requests? |
| 14 | +- How do you create a branch and a commit? |
| 15 | +- How do you use GitHub Pages? |
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| 17 | +And when you're done you'll be able to: |
9 | 18 | - Communicate in issues |
10 | 19 | - Manage notifications |
11 | 20 | - Create branches |
12 | 21 | - Make commits |
13 | 22 | - Introduce changes with pull requests |
| 23 | +- Deploy a web page to GitHub pages |
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| 25 | +# What you'll build |
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| 28 | +- Completed [source repository](https://github.com/githubtraining/github-slideshow-demo/) |
| 29 | +- Interactive [slideshow](https://githubtraining.github.io/github-slideshow-demo/) deployed to GitHub Pages. |
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| 31 | +# Prerequisites |
| 32 | +None. This course is a great introduction for your first day on GitHub. |
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| 34 | +# Projects used |
| 35 | +This makes use of the following open source projects. Consider exploring these repos and maybe even making contributions! |
| 36 | +- [reveal.js](https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js): A framework for creating presentations using HTML |
| 37 | +- [Jekyll](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll): a simple, blog-aware, static site generator. |
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| 39 | +# Audience |
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15 | | -This course has a dedicated message board on the [GitHub Community]({{ communityBoard }}) website. If you want to discuss this course with GitHub Trainers or other participants create a post over there. The message board can also be used to troubleshoot any issue you encounter while taking this course. |
| 41 | +New developers, new GitHub users, users new to Git, students, managers, teams |
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