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Resources and guides for mastering the world’s leading platform for version control and collaborative development. Whether you’re a beginner who’s just starting to navigate GitHub or an experienced developer looking to refine your skills, this category offers a wealth of tutorials, tips, and best practices to help you make the most of the GitHub platform. Learn how to effectively manage repositories, understand branching and merging, and utilize GitHub Actions for automation. Explore advanced topics such as continuous integration and deployment, security best practices, and leveraging GitHub’s API for custom workflows. Completely new to GitHub? Check out our documentation on how to get started.

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Top 12 Git commands every developer must know

The latest installment of GitHub for Beginners, where we cover the essential Git commands to get you Git-literate.

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A short guide to mastering keyboard shortcuts on GitHub

Say goodbye to constant mouse clicking and hello to seamless navigation with GitHub shortcuts.

4 ways GitHub engineers use GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot increases efficiency for our engineers by allowing us to automate repetitive tasks, stay focused, and more.

Using GitHub Copilot in your IDE: Tips, tricks, and best practices

GitHub Copilot is a powerful AI assistant. Learn practical strategies to get the most out of GitHub Copilot to generate the most relevant and useful code suggestions in your editor.

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Insider newsletter digest: 4 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Projects

Unlock the secret to organization and collaboration magic with our GitHub Projects tips and tricks roundup.

GitHub Copilot Learning Pathway: Accelerate your business with AI

Learn what GitHub Copilot can help your business achieve in this expert-guided GitHub Learning Pathway, featuring insights from tech leaders at top organizations.

How we’re using GitHub Projects to standardize our workflows and stay aligned

Learn how we’re managing feature releases and establishing best practices within and across teams at GitHub using GitHub Projects.

Insider newsletter digest: How to use GitHub Copilot

Explore the July edition, featuring prompts, tips, and use cases for GitHub Copilot.

5 tips for making your GitHub profile page accessible

Your profile’s README invites the world to know you and your work, so it’s important that everyone can read and understand it. In this post, we share some tips for making your README more accessible.

Prompting GitHub Copilot Chat to become your personal AI assistant for accessibility

GitHub Copilot Chat can help you learn about accessibility and improve the accessibility of your code. In this blog, we share a sample foundational prompt that instructs GitHub Copilot Chat to become your personal AI assistant for accessibility.

GitHub Learning Pathways: Learn from the best

Gain expertise and insights from top organizations through guided tutorials, boosting productivity, enhancing security, and enabling seamless collaboration.

How I used GitHub Copilot Chat to build a ReactJS gallery prototype

GitHub Copilot Chat can help developers create prototypes, understand code, make UI changes, troubleshoot errors, make code more accessible, and generate unit tests.

Introducing Learning Paths on Global Campus

Guiding student developers through skill building foundations, a building block in their learning journey with GitHub Education.

10 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Projects

Learn how to optimize your usage of GitHub Projects to plan and track your work from idea to production.

Unleashing GitHub Codespaces templates to ignite your development

Learn how to leverage templating features in GitHub Codespaces to streamline your project setup, improve consistency, and simplify collaboration within your development team.

How to build a GPT-3 App with Nextjs, React, and GitHub Copilot

In this step-by-step tutorial, you will learn how to use GitHub Copilot to build an application with OpenAI’s gpt-3.5-turbo model.

GitHub CLI project command is now generally available!

Level up your use of GitHub Projects on the command line and in GitHub Actions with the new project CLI command.

How to use GitHub Copilot: Prompts, tips, and use cases

In this prompt guide for GitHub Copilot, two GitHub developer advocates, Rizel and Michelle, will share examples and best practices for communicating your desired results to the AI pair programmer.

CodeQL zero to hero part 2: Getting started with CodeQL

Learn the basics of CodeQL and how to use it for security research! In this blog, we will teach you how to leverage GitHub’s static analysis tool CodeQL to write custom CodeQL queries.