GH-900: GitHub Foundations

Learning objectives:

GitHub Foundations Part 1 of 2

Introduction to Git

• Learn what version control is
• Understand distributed version control systems, like Git
• Create a new Git project and configure it
• Make and track changes to code by using Git
• Use Git to recover from simple mistakes
• Lab: Try out Git

Introduction to GitHub

• Identify the fundamental features of GitHub.
• Learn about repository management.
• Gain an understanding of the GitHub flow, which includes branches, commits, and pull requests.
• Explore the collaborative features of GitHub by reviewing issues and discussions.
• Recognize how to manage your GitHub notifications and subscriptions.
• Lab: A guided tour of GitHub

Introduction to GitHub's products

• Define the difference between the different types of GitHub accounts: Personal, Organization, and Enterprise.
• Explain each GitHub plan: GitHub Free for personal accounts and organizations, GitHub Pro for personal accounts, GitHub Team, and GitHub Enterprise.
• Distinguish the features associated with accessing GitHub on GitHub Mobile and GitHub Desktop.
• Describe a brief overview of GitHub billing and payments.

Configure code scanning on GitHub

• Describe code scanning.
• List the steps for enabling code scanning in a repository.
• List the steps for enabling code scanning with third-party analysis.
• Contrast how to implement CodeQL analysis in a GitHub Actions workflow versus a third-party continuous integration (CI) tool.
• Explain how to configure code scanning on a repository using triggering events.
• Contrast the frequency of code scanning workflows (scheduled vs triggered by events).

Introduction to GitHub Copilot

• Learn how GitHub Copilot can help you code by offering autocomplete-style suggestions.
• Learn about the various ways to trigger GitHub Copilot.
• Learn about the differences among GitHub Copilot Individual, Business, and Enterprise.
• Learn how to configure GitHub Copilot.
• Troubleshoot GitHub Copilot.
• Lab: Develop with AI-powered code suggestions by using GitHub Copilot and VS Code

Code with GitHub Codespaces

• Describe GitHub Codespaces.
• Explain the GitHub Codespace lifecycle and how to perform each step.
• Define the different customizations you can personalize with GitHub Codespaces.
• Discern the differences between GitHub.dev and GitHub Codespaces.
• Lab: Code with Codespaces and Visual Studio Code

Manage your work with GitHub Projects

• Discern the differences between Projects and Projects (Classic).
• Build an organization level Project.
• Organize your Project.
• Edit the visibility, access, and management of your Project.
• Develop automation and insights from your Project.

Communicate effectively on GitHub using Markdown

• Use Markdown to add lists, images, and links in a comment or text file.
• Determine where and how to use Markdown in a GitHub repository.
• Learn about syntax extensions available in GitHub (GitHub-flavored Markdown).
• Lab: Communicate using Markdown

GitHub Foundations Part 2 of 2

Contribute to an open-source project on GitHub

• Find open-source projects and tasks to contribute to in GitHub.
• Create pull requests to open-source projects.
• Implement best practices to communicate with open-source maintainers and perform code reviews.
• Find and engage with open-source communities.
• Lab: Create your first pull request

Manage an InnerSource program by using GitHub

• Contrast user- versus organization-owned projects.
• Make recommendations about the number of GitHub organizations you should have.
• Create discoverable repositories.
• Create robust repository READMEs.
• Use issue and pull-request templates.
• Build transparency into repositories.
• Measure the success of InnerSource within your organization.
• Distribute your InnerSource toolkit.
• Lab: InnerSource fundamentals

Maintain a secure repository by using GitHub best practices

• Identify the tools and GitHub features to establish a secure development strategy.
• Enable vulnerable dependency detection for private repositories.
• Detect and fix outdated dependencies with security vulnerabilities.
• Automate the detection of vulnerable dependencies with Dependabot.
• Add a security policy with a SECURITY.md file.
• Remove a commit exposing sensitive data in a pull request.
• Remove historical commits exposing sensitive data deep in your repository.
• Lab: Secure your repository's supply chain

Introduction to GitHub administration

• Summarize the organizational structures and permission levels that GitHub administrators can use to organize members in order to control access and security.
• Identify the various technologies that enable a secure authentication strategy allowing administrators to centrally manage repository access.
• Describe the technologies required to centrally manage teams and members using existing directory information services.
• Describe how you can use GitHub itself as an identity provider for authentication and authorization.

Authenticate and authorize user identities on GitHub

• Be able to describe the Authentication and Authorization Model.
• Understand how to manage user access to your GitHub organization through Authorization and Authentication tools.
• Identify the supported identity providers and technologies that support secure repository access.
• Understand the implications of enabling SAML SSO.
• Identify the authorization and authentication options available, and understand the administrator's role in enforcement of a secure access strategy for a GitHub enterprise.
• Describe how users access private information in a GitHub organization.
• Evaluate the benefits of enabling Team Synchronization to manage team membership.

Manage repository changes by using pull requests on GitHub

• Review branches and their importance to pull requests.
• Define what a pull request is.
• Learn how to create a pull request.
• Understand the different pull request statuses.
• Walk through how to merge a pull request to a base branch.
• Lab: Reviewing pull requests

Search and organize repository history by using GitHub

• Find relevant issues and pull requests.
• Search history to find context.
• Make connections within GitHub to help others find things.
• Lab: Connect the dots in a GitHub repository

Using GitHub Copilot with Python

• Enable the GitHub Copilot extension in Visual Studio Code.
• Craft prompts that can generate useful suggestions from GitHub Copilot.
• Use GitHub Copilot to improve a Python project.
• Lab: Set up GitHub Copilot to work with Visual Studio Code
• Lab: Update a Python web API with GitHub Copilot