GitHub For Dummies

Introduction 1Part 1: Getting Started with GitHub.com 5Chapter 1: Understanding the Git in GitHub 7Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Collaborative Coding Environment 27Part 2: Starting Your First Solo Project 39Chapter 3: Introducing GitHub Repositories 41Chapter 4: Setting Up a GitHub Website Repo 63Chapter 5: Creating a Website with GitHub Pages 77Part 3: Contributing to Your First Project 95Chapter 6: Forking GitHub Repositories 97Chapter 7: Writing and Committing Code 113Chapter 8: Working with Pull Requests 133Part 4: Manage and Contribute to Large Projects 153Chapter 9: Exploring and Contributing to OSS 155Chapter 10: Starting Your Own OSS 169Chapter 11: Inner-Source Your Code on GitHub 189Part 5: Make GitHub Work for You 209Chapter 12: Collaborating Outside of GitHub 211Chapter 13: GitHub Workflow Integrations 229Chapter 14: Personalizing GitHub 251Part 6: The GitHub Ecosystem 263Chapter 15: Exploring the GitHub Marketplace 265Chapter 16: GitHub and You 275Chapter 17: Attending Events 285Part 7: The Parts of Tens 295Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Level Up on GitHub 297Chapter 19: Ten Ways to Improve Your Development Workflow 309Chapter 20: Ten Tips for Being an Effective Community Member 317Index 325

Sarah Guthals, PhD is a social software engineer, entrepreneur, and former engineering manager at GitHub. She is coauthor of Helping Kids with Coding For Dummies. Phil Haack is a former engineering director at GitHub and senior program manager at Microsoft. He is author of a number of books on ASP.NET.