Practical Git: for Absolute Beginners

Explore Git on practice in under 2 hours! Gain hands–on experience already from the first lectures!

This course is designed for students who never worked with Git. We will focus on Git basics from the very beginning and discover how to apply them. The course contains theoretical lectures followed by practical lessons.

Every practical lesson shows the application material from the respective theory. Students have an opportunity to explore Git and gain practical knowledge in less than 2 hours.

The course will teach you how to start applying Git from day 1 in a practical manner. The main accent is to familiarize with Git faster and try it out.

The following topics will be covered: 

installation and setup;

explanation of what Git repository is;

how to copy the repository to your computer;

what is the difference between local and remote repositories;

lifecycle of changes in files;

how to view modifications in files and revert them;

common Git commands for saving and propagating modifications such as commit and push;

using history log;

downloading changes with the Git pull command;

what is a Git branch;

effective teamwork in examples with many branches;

merge and rebase: when to use?

conflicts and files and how to resolve them;