GitHub for Beginners: Answers to some common questions
Find the answers to some of the most common GitHub-related questions.
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Kedasha Kerr
36 articles by Kedasha Kerr.
36 articles by Kedasha Kerr.
Find the answers to some of the most common GitHub-related questions.
Discover how to use VS Code to interact with GitHub and maintain your projects.
Learn how to find opportunities to contribute to the open source community.
Discover how to format and edit your comments and posts using Markdown.
Learn how to create a free website for any repository on GitHub Pages.
Learn how to secure your projects and keep them safe with GitHub Advanced Security.
Set up your first GitHub Actions workflow in this how-to guide.
Learn how to get organized and collaborate more efficiently with this step-by-step tutorial.
Hear about the personal tools we use to improve our workflows (and how to get started building your own) on this episode of the GitHub Podcast.
How GitHub’s new MCP server and GPT-5 are revolutionizing developer workflows — with live build examples.
Learn how maintainers are using the GitHub MCP Server and what they are building in this episode of the GitHub Podcast.
Learn how to use GitHub Copilot to help review and polish your code.
See how to use GitHub Copilot to engage in some test-driven development.
Follow along and build a frontend client using React and Copilot Chat.
See how you can use GitHub Copilot to build an API.
See how I built a developer-focused landing page in under 30 minutes using GitHub Copilot agent mode and Claude 3.5 Sonnet—with just screenshots and prompts.
Learn how to leverage GitHub Copilot to make your code more secure.
Learn how to write effective prompts and troubleshoot results in this installment of our GitHub for Beginners series.
Get the most out of Copilot with code completion, inline chat, slash commands, Copilot code review, and more.
Get started with GitHub Copilot and navigate features like Copilot Chat in this installment of the GitHub for Beginners series.
As part of the GitHub for Beginners guide, learn how to improve the security of your profile and create a profile README. This will let you give your GitHub account a little more personality.
As part of the GitHub for Beginners guide, learn how to merge pull requests. This will enable you to resolve conflicts when they arise.
As part of the GitHub for Beginners guide, learn how to create pull requests. This will enable you to suggest changes to existing repositories.
Take the next step in our GitHub for Beginners series and add code to your repository. Learn how to create branches and upload changes into a pull request.
The next step in our GitHub for Beginners series is learning how to add files and folders to your GitHub repository.
Git started on your first repository in the third installment of GitHub for Beginners. Discover the essential features and settings to manage your projects effectively.
The latest installment of GitHub for Beginners, where we cover the essential Git commands to get you Git-literate.
Let’s get you started on your Git journey with basic concepts to know, plus a step-by-step on how to install and configure the most widely used version control system in the world.
GitHub Copilot is a powerful AI assistant. Learn practical strategies to get the most out of GitHub Copilot to generate the most relevant and useful code suggestions in your editor.
GitHub Copilot is widely known for its code generation feature. Learn how the AI assistant’s abilities can extend beyond just code generation.
Unlock your full potential with GitHub Certifications! Earning a GitHub certification will give you the competitive advantage of showing up as a GitHub expert.
Learn how to optimize your usage of GitHub Projects to plan and track your work from idea to production.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you will learn how to use GitHub Copilot to build an application with OpenAI’s gpt-3.5-turbo model.
Learn some tips, tricks, and tools for mastering the command line from GitHub’s own developers.
GitHub Codespaces enables you to start coding faster when coupled with dev containers. Learn how to automate a portion of your development environment by adding a dev container to an open source project using GitHub Codespaces.
Here are some actionable tips on how to ask your manager to send you to GitHub Universe this year—with a free template included!