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Craft a Great GitHub Profile

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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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