GitHub Learning Lab

Learn new skills by completing fun, realistic projects in your very own GitHub repository. Get advice and helpful feedback from our friendly Learning Lab bot.

Our most popular courses

Introduction to GitHub

Created by The GitHub Training Team

If you are looking for a quick and fun introduction to GitHub, you've found it. This class will get you started using GitHub in less than an hour.

Git

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Hello, GitHub Actions!

Created by GitHub

Create a GitHub Action and use it in a workflow.

Communicating using Markdown

Created by The GitHub Training Team

This course will walk you through everything you need to start organizing ideas and collaborating using Markdown, a lightweight language for text formatting.

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Markdown

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Learning should be fun

There are no simulations or boring tutorials here, just hands-on lessons created with by the GitHub community and taught by the friendly Learning Lab bot.

Real projects

Learn new skills while working in your own copy of a real project.

Helpful bot

Our friendly bot provides instructions and feedback throughout your journey.

Real workflow

Everything happens in GitHub Issues and Pull Requests.

Learning Paths

Learn something new with these curated lists of our favorite courses, videos, tutorials, and more.

First Day on GitHub

Learning Path by The GitHub Training Team

Welcome to GitHub! We're so glad you're here. We know it can look overwhelming at first, so we've put together a few of our favorite courses for people logging in for the first time

What is GitHub?
Introduction to GitHub
Git Handbook
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First Week on GitHub

Learning Path by The GitHub Training Team

After you've mastered the basics, learn some of the fun things you can do on GitHub. From GitHub Pages to building projects with your friends, this path will give you plenty of new ideas.

Discover GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages
Reviewing pull requests
And 2 more...

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InnerSource: theory to practice

Learning Path by The GitHub Training Team

Learn about the concept of InnerSource and put it to use in this carefully crafted learning path.

An introduction to InnerSource
InnerSource fundamentals
Case studies
And 3 more...

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Become an open source enterprise

Learning Path by The GitHub Training Team

Learn about open source in the enterprise. It's about more than just contributing!

What is open source? Explained in Legos
The state of enterprise open source: A Red Hat report
Create an open source program
And 5 more...

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GitHub Universe Workshops

Learning Path by The GitHub Training Team

Get ready to master GitHub Actions and learn how they can help your team integrate DevOps principles into your workflows.

InnerSource fundamentals
Hello, GitHub Actions!
GitHub Actions: Continuous Integration
And 4 more...

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Ramp up on Git and GitHub

Learning Path by The GitHub Training Team

A set of resources leveraged by Microsoft employees to ramp up on Git and GitHub. Progress of this path is intended to take about 4 weeks, including 1 week of prerequisites.

Git Handbook
GitHub Learning Lab
Communicating using Markdown
And 17 more...

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Learn GitHub with GitHub

GitHub Pages

Created by The GitHub Training Team

Learn how to create a site or blog from your GitHub repositories with GitHub Pages.

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GitHub Pages

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Community starter kit

Created by The GitHub Training Team

There are millions of projects on GitHub, all competing for attention from the millions of open source contributors available to help. Learn how to help your project stand out.

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Open Source

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Uploading your project to GitHub

Created by The GitHub Training Team

You’re an upload away from using a full suite of development tools and premier third-party apps on GitHub. This course helps you seamlessly upload your code to GitHub and introduces you to exciting next steps to elevate your project.

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Migrating your repository to GitHub

Created by The GitHub Training Team

You're a migration away from using a full suite of development tools and premier third-party apps on GitHub. This course helps you seamlessly move code to GitHub and sets you up to do more after you make the move.

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GitHub

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Reviewing pull requests

Created by The GitHub Training Team

See how collaboration works on GitHub and start building great things, together.

GitHub

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Managing merge conflicts

Created by The GitHub Training Team

Merge conflicts are a normal part of working in Git. Learn why they happen and how to resolve them with ease.

Security strategy essentials

Created by The GitHub Training Team

Course repo for Learning Lab course "Security strategy essentials"

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Securing your workflows

Created by The GitHub Training Team

Learn security best practices and keep your project’s contributions—and contributors—safe.

Git

GitHub

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Write a Learning Lab course

Created by The GitHub Training Team

Get starter code, or let the Learning Lab bot guide you as you author your first course.

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Connect the dots in a GitHub repository

Created by The GitHub Training Team

This course will teach you skills for finding relevant conversations, commits, and projects in a repository.

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Languages and Tools

Introduction to HTML

Created by The GitHub Training Team

If you are looking for a quick and fun introduction to the exciting world of programming, this course is for you. Learn fundamental HTML skills and build your first webpage in less than an hour.

GitHub Pages

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Introduction to Node with Express

Created by everydeveloper

Node.js gives you the ability to run JavaScript files on the server-side. Express is a library for Node.js, that allows you to make requests to different "endpoints" and get a response back.

Introduction to Python

Created by everydeveloper

Go from Hello World to writing a short random quote generator using Python.

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Introduction to Ruby

Created by everydeveloper

Learn the basics of Ruby. Make a hello world program, then include if/else statements

Ruby

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Introduction to TensorFlow

Created by everydeveloper

Machine Learning (ML)/Neural Network (NN) tools have recently made a huge splash with applications in data analysis, image classification, and data generation. Here we will use the Fashion MNIST dataset to classify images of clothing.

Introduction to Java

Created by everydeveloper

Java is an object oriented programming language, which is popular for multi-platform apps.

Java

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Introduction to PHP

Created by everydeveloper

PHP is a server-side programming language that can insert dynamic code into your HTML. PHP is used in popular content management systems, such as WordPress and Drupal.

PHP

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Setting up a Reason React App

Created by Stockholm Research Center

Hello and welcome! In this lab we will cover the basic setup needed to build Reason React applications, covering testing, documenting them, building, and releasing them!

Create REST server with NodeJS and Express

Created by M3kH

Learn the basics to create an Express server and follow the REST principles.

TomTom Maps SDK for Android - Display a Map

Created by tomtom-international-labs

In this course you will learn how to create an Android application that displays a TomTom Map

Notating with LilyPond

Created by gitmusical

LilyPond is an open source technology for notating music in plain text files. In this course, we'll cover the fundamentals of music notation in LilyPond.

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Introduction to React

Created by The GitHub Training Team

In this course, you will learn the basics of React.js through building a gradebook web application to manage assignments, students, and grades.

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DevOps with GitHub

GitHub Actions: Continuous Delivery

Created by The GitHub Training Team

Create two deployment workflows using AWS.

Getting started with GitHub Apps

Created by The GitHub Training Team

Add your own GitHub feature, automate workflows, and more with GitHub Apps.

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Continuous integration with CircleCI

Created by The GitHub Training Team

Learn how to automatically test changes made to your project, freeing you up to write more amazing code.

Continuous Integration

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Continuous integration with Travis CI

Created by The GitHub Training Team

Learn about the principles of continuous integration with GitHub and Travis CI.

Continuous Integration

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Enterprise on GitHub

InnerSource fundamentals

Created by The GitHub Training Team

Organizations of all sizes and in all industries are chatting about InnerSource concepts. This course walks you through some of the key concepts of InnerSource and helps you build up an internal toolkit for adopting InnerSource practices.

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Create an open source program

Created by The GitHub Training Team

Learn how to work alongside the open source communities that build software you're already using, and put your business at the forefront of the world's most innovative and secure code.

Create a release based workflow

Created by The GitHub Training Team

This course focuses on releases, and more complex branching strategies.

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Getting started

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Our most popular courses

Introduction to GitHub

Hello, GitHub Actions!

Communicating using Markdown

Learning should be fun

Real projects

Helpful bot

Real workflow

Learning Paths

First Day on GitHub

First Week on GitHub

InnerSource: theory to practice

Become an open source enterprise

GitHub Universe Workshops

Ramp up on Git and GitHub

Learn GitHub with GitHub

GitHub Pages

Community starter kit

Uploading your project to GitHub

Migrating your repository to GitHub

Reviewing pull requests

Managing merge conflicts

Security strategy essentials

Securing your workflows

Write a Learning Lab course

Connect the dots in a GitHub repository

Languages and Tools

Introduction to HTML

Introduction to Node with Express

Introduction to Python

Introduction to Ruby

Introduction to TensorFlow

Introduction to Java

Introduction to PHP

Setting up a Reason React App

Create REST server with NodeJS and Express

TomTom Maps SDK for Android - Display a Map

Notating with LilyPond

Introduction to React

DevOps with GitHub

GitHub Actions: Continuous Delivery

Getting started with GitHub Apps

Continuous integration with CircleCI

Continuous integration with Travis CI

Enterprise on GitHub

InnerSource fundamentals

Create an open source program

Create a release based workflow

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