A free Udacity course on Git version control covering branches, merging, remote repositories, pull requests and merge conflicts. It is video-based and aimed at beginners.

Commenters call it thorough, well designed for beginners, and worth the time, with one saying it helped even though they had already been using Git.

On Reddit (11)

1. Strongly recommendsComfortableMission6r/learnprogramming2022in “git is my personal Waterloo”▲ 1

   I highly recommend this: https://www.udacity.com/course/version-control-with-git--ud123

2. Strongly recommendsDistinct_Broccoli_25r/learnprogramming2020in “What is "remote" in github?”▲ 1

   So, "origin" is just the default name for gives to a "remote" repo you clone. Remote repos are the ones you can view, clone, or fork on GitHub. You can change "origin" or add new remotes with other names if you want. Here are some more detailed answers…

3. Strongly recommendsduhhobor/learnprogramming2020in “Git tutorials suck. Please help.”▲ 1

   This shirt course is excellent https://www.udacity.com/course/version-control-with-git--ud123

4. Strongly recommendsUli1382r/learnprogramming2020in “Git tutorials suck. Please help.”▲ 2

   On of the best courses I personally found is this: https://www.udacity.com/course/version-control-with-git--ud123 And it is also free!!

5. Strongly recommendsMethod1337r/learnprogramming2020in “Should I start learning Github simultaneously?”▲ 1

   Udacity has a great course on version control, how to use it and they also teach you on how to work with remote repositories, creating a pull request, handling merge conflicts and pretty much anything that a beginner must know and be aware of. I have done the course. It's free and takes a…

6. Strongly recommendssongexplorerr/webdev2018in “Is it normal for Git to kick your ass at first?”

   I recommend this Udacity course. It is extremely thorough and I've had no trouble understanding Git since. Took me a few days to slog through it but it was so worth it.

7. Recommendsnotantisocialr/learnprogramming2021in “Can someone for the love of god explain what Git and Github is like I'm 5? Everytime I go to Github, I'm lost as hell”▲ 1

   Udacity has a great free got course I ask all my devs to take.

8. Recommendsonlywearplaidr/webdev2017in “My Git Cheatsheet (Gist)”

   Doing the Lord's work! I'm in the thick of a nanodegree on Udacity and their git course was good, but super super brief, this is awesome!

9. RecommendsRIPdigr/learnprogramming2016in “Any resources to quickly learn Git and GitHub?”

   Here is a class from Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/courses/ud775 And another one from Codeacademy: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-git The codacdemy class is super short but it is just focused on git and not gitHUB. The Udacity class will take much longer to complete but I feel like it…

10. RecommendsPeopleAreDumbAsHellr/learnprogramming2015in “How to start contributing to open source?”▲ 4

    Take the git course on udacity. This will set you up to be pretty comfortable with using git and git hub

11. MentionsDonHozyr/learnprogramming2017in “3 lesser-known tips for learning web development”

    Thank you for this post, OP. I had previously only heard about Trello; I now just created an account. Seeing your board demonstrated how useful this can be. I'll also check out the Git course on Udacity. I currently use Brackets and Atom but upon seeing the comments I will demo VS Code. Best of…

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