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Applied GitHub Platform

Pragmatic AI Labs via edX

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Overview

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.

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Alfredo Deza

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