Version Control and Collaboration Associate
A free Git course from insiderOne University, in English, that takes about 2 hours. Git, branches and pull requests, the way a working team uses them. It ends in one assessed project. The course and the certificate are free. Anyone can verify the certificate at its own link, without an account.
Add it to your LinkedIn profile with the insiderOne logo, verifiable by anyone.
What you will be able to do
- Read git status, diff and log output and say exactly what state a repository is in
- Write small commits whose messages explain why the change was made
- Create and merge branches, and predict whether a merge will fast-forward
- Resolve a merge conflict by hand so that neither side's change is lost
- Take a change from a feature branch to a merged pull request, and write review comments a teammate can act on
- Undo a mistake with the right command for its situation, and keep secrets out of a repository
Students and freshers going into software, data or design internships who have downloaded code from GitHub but have never shared a repository with a team.
What is in it
- 1Why version control, and the picture in Git's head10 min
- 2The everyday commands, and what they print11 min
- 3Writing commits a teammate can use11 min
- 4Branches and merging11 min
- 5Merge conflicts, resolved by hand10 min
- 6Remotes and the team workflow12 min
- 7Code review: giving it and taking it11 min
- 8Undoing safely, and what never goes in a repository12 min
One ticket, one conflict, one review
A written walkthrough of the commands you would run, in order and each explained, from branching to an open pull request including the conflict resolution, then your pull request title and summary, then one review comment on Kabir's pull request.
About 125 minutes in total.
Two levels
Finish the units and the project and you get the Certificate of Completion. Pass the live skill challenge on Git at Practitioner level or above and it becomes a Verified Certificate, which anyone you send it to can check for themselves.
Questions
What does it cost?
Nothing. The course and the certificate are free, and so is verifying it.
Can an employer check it?
Yes. Every certificate has its own page, and the code printed on it resolves there without anyone needing an account.
Do I need any experience?
No. These are written for students and people in their first job, and they assume nothing.
What do I actually walk away with?
The certificate, and the piece of work you made for the project. That goes into your insiderOne profile as a proof item, private until you choose to show it.
Know someone studying this?
The course and the certificate are free, and anyone they send it to can check it.