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Making changes on GitHub for non-technical people

This course will help you, a non-technical person make changes to data files on GitHub. This can be usefule to manage the content of a web site, update data in a corporation or in an Open Source project.

Target Audience

• HR
• Marketing
• Sales
• Writers (e.g. technical documentation writer)
• Tech support
• Any non-technical person

Prerequisites

• Access to the GitHub web site and a working email address.

Objectives

• Use GitHub without any background in programming to make changes to data files in a corporation or to make non-code contribution to Open Source projects.

Course Format

• Duration of the course is 8-16 academic hours. Two full days or 4 half-days.
• The course includes approximately 40% hands on lab work.

Syllabus

1. About GitHub
   • What is version control?
   • What is GitHub?
   • Creating an account.
   • Setting an avatar
2. Markdown used by GitHub
   • Basic Markdown format.
   • Creating a simple web site using Markdown.
   • Links in the markdown
   • Adding images
   • Ordered and unordered bullet points
3. Issues
   • What are Issues
   • Commenting on an Issue
   • Opening an Issue
   • Tagging issues
   • Searching for issues
4. Making changes to other porjects
   • Making a change to a repository
   • Sending a pull-request
   • Understanding branches
   • Updating a change

Contact

Contact: Gabor Szabo gabor@hostlocal.com
Phone: +972-54-4624648