Part 1: Introduction to git and GitHub

Estimated time: 20 minutes

Overview

Questions

• What is git?
• A version control tool? What does that mean?
• How can version control help me?
• Are git and GitHub the same?

Objectives

• Understand what version control is and how git, as a version control tool, is useful
• Understand the difference between git and GitHub
• Demonstrate the basics of a git workflow and how git works with files

Introduction

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This introductory part of the session is being delivered as a short “lecture-style” PowerPoint presentation.

If you would like to see some further introductory content, there are some useful introductory videos that you can watch in the git documentation:

• Git introductory videos for beginners