Save time, avoid pitfalls, and get productive fast. Learn Git collaboration, branching and merging in less than 2 hours!

Are you a software developer who uses Git and GitHub, or needs to start using these tools for work or a side project?

This 2-hour intermediate course takes away the guesswork. It builds on my free, introductory course Short and Sweet: Get Started with Git and GitHub Right Now, to tackle tough topics like collaboration, branching and merging. The intro course has 200+ reviews and 8000 students.

This course goes way beyond the intro course. More examples and more practical knowledge - and the same simple, no-nonsense structure.

Save time and get productive with Git and GitHub - fast!

In less than 2 hours, this Short and Sweet course will take you from beginner to intermediate skills, without a lot of filler. At the end of the course, you'll be able to add collaborators to your own projects, clone and collaborate on other people's or companies' projects, use branching and merging to minimize conflicts, fork projects, and recover from errors by rolling back to prior versions the right way.

That's a great trade for 2 hours of your time!

What do students say about this course?

“This is an excellent course on how to start using Git & GitHub with clear examples throughout the course. Gives all the good practises to start coding and committing code to your own or multi-user project. Shows you how to do all the usual commands and scenarios when developing code in a project.

“It also shows where & how things can go wrong and also VERY importantly shows what you must not do which could wreck other users’ submission of code or break the project.

“I would Highly Recommend this course as it covers the basics that you need to know. :-)” —Mark Collins

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Why Git and GitHub?

Using Git on the command line can seem difficult because the commands are exacting, and they can trip you up if you get out of sync - but Git and GitHub are very powerful and absolutely essential for modern software developers.

That's because Git and GitHub are a mainstay of modern software version control. Used together, they provide a backup mechanism, a record of your project's history, a collaboration mechanism, and a base for a public portfolio that could get you a job.