GitHub: From Zero to Pull Request
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GitHub: From Zero to Pull Request
This course is part of Mastering GitHub Specialization
Instructors: Noah Gift
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March 2026
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There are 4 modules in this course
Learn Git and GitHub from the ground up, then apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents to automate development workflows. This course takes you from installing Git and creating your first repository to submitting pull requests, contributing to open source, and building custom AI agents with Model Context Protocol (MCP).
You will start with Git fundamentals: initializing repositories, staging and committing changes, and safely undoing work with revert and reset. From there, you will connect local repositories to GitHub using push, pull, and clone, and learn to collaborate through branching, pull requests, and code review. The course covers community workflows including forking, issue tracking, and automating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with GitHub Actions. You will also configure gitignore patterns to keep sensitive files out of version control and write effective README documentation in Markdown. The final module introduces AI agents on GitHub: the progression from code-completion assistants to autonomous agents, how agents interact with repositories and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) through tool execution, task selection criteria, security boundaries, and building custom agents that connect to external tools via MCP.
Covers Git version control fundamentals, repository initialization, staging and committing, undoing changes, connecting to GitHub, and synchronizing with remote repositories via push, pull, and clone.
What's included
6 videos8 readings1 assignment
6 videosβ’Total 21 minutes
- What is Git and Github?β’3 minutes
- Installing Gitβ’4 minutes
- Your First Repoβ’4 minutes
- Undoing Changesβ’4 minutes
- Joining GitHubβ’3 minutes
- push, pull, cloneβ’4 minutes
8 readingsβ’Total 26 minutes
- Introduction to Courseβ’10 minutes
- Key Terms: Understanding Gitβ’10 minutes
- Installing and Using Gitβ’1 minute
- Reflection: Understanding Gitβ’1 minute
- Key Terms: Local Git Workflowsβ’1 minute
- Reflection: Local Git Workflowsβ’1 minute
- Key Terms: GitHub Integrationβ’1 minute
- Reflection: GitHub Integrationβ’1 minute
1 assignmentβ’Total 5 minutes
- Git Foundationsβ’5 minutes
Covers branching strategies, pull request workflows, forking for open source contribution, issue tracking, GitHub Actions for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), gitignore configuration, and README documentation.
What's included
7 videos6 readings1 assignment
7 videosβ’Total 18 minutes
- Branchingβ’2 minutes
- Pull Requestsβ’2 minutes
- Forkingβ’2 minutes
- Issuesβ’2 minutes
- GitHub Actionsβ’3 minutes
- Ignoring Filesβ’3 minutes
- Writing a READMEβ’3 minutes
6 readingsβ’Total 6 minutes
- Key Terms: Branching and Pull Requestsβ’1 minute
- Reflection: Branching and Pull Requestsβ’1 minute
- Key Terms: Community and Automationβ’1 minute
- Reflection: Community and Automationβ’1 minute
- Key Terms: Repository Best Practicesβ’1 minute
- Reflection: Repository Best Practicesβ’1 minute
1 assignmentβ’Total 5 minutes
- GitHub Collaborationβ’5 minutes
Covers the evolution from AI assistants to autonomous agents, how GitHub agents interact with repositories and tools, task selection criteria for agent automation, agent security and permission boundaries, and building custom agents with Model Context Protocol (MCP).
What's included
5 videos2 readings
5 videosβ’Total 17 minutes
- Assistants to Agentsβ’3 minutes
- How GitHub Agents Workβ’4 minutes
- Choosing The Right Tasksβ’4 minutes
- Agent Securityβ’3 minutes
- MCP and Custom Agentsβ’3 minutes
2 readingsβ’Total 2 minutes
- Key Terms: GitHub AI and Agentsβ’1 minute
- Reflection: GitHub AI and Agentsβ’1 minute
A culminating project that integrates Git fundamentals, GitHub collaboration workflows, and AI agent capabilities into a complete development workflow, evaluated against real-world team collaboration standards.
What's included
4 readings1 assignment
4 readingsβ’Total 13 minutes
- Key Termsβ’1 minute
- Before You Goβ’10 minutes
- Reflectionβ’1 minute
- Next Stepsβ’1 minute
1 assignmentβ’Total 30 minutes
- Final Graded Quizβ’30 minutes
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