ADOU24 - GitHub Platform Tutorial (GPT)

This repository serves to hold the training materials and resources for the full-day GitHub Platform Tutorial.

General Resources

• Markdown Guide / Basic Syntax
• Markdown Cheat Sheet

Demos / Labs

• Overview of GitHub
• Navigating the platform
• introduction-to-github
• communicate-using-markdown

GitHub Projects

• Planning and tracking with Projects
• GitHub Issues
• GitHub Issue Templates
• GitHub Roadmap

Demos / Labs

• configure Issue Templates and open an Issue
• see the Issues tab
• show Projects templates
• see the Projects tab

GitHub Actions

• GitHub Actions
• GH Actions Org

Demos / Labs

• Use a starter workflow
  1. Fork this repo
  2. Enable Actions
  3. Click "New workflow"
  4. Search "Greet"
  5. Click "Configure" for Greetings workflow (aka first-interaction)
  6. Edit and commit
• Additional / alternatives:
  1. hello-github-actions
  2. test-with-actions
  3. reusable-workflows
• GitHub Marketplace
  • Also see sdras/awesome-actions repo

GitHub Administration

• Enterprise administrator documentation
• Guides for GitHub Enterprise
• GitHub Discussions

Demos / Labs

• Walkthrough of key enterprise/org/repo settings
• Show community health files in docs directory
• Create Custom Role (org vs repo)
  • About custom org roles
  • About custom repo roles
• Rulesets & Branch Protections
  • About protected branches
  • About rulesets
  • Available rules

GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS)

• About GHAS
• GitHub Enterprise Application Security
• GH Advanced Security Org
• GitHub Security

Demos / Labs

• Show security overview for an organization
• Secret Scanning with Branch Protections
  • intro-secret-scanning
• Using GitHub Advanced Security
  1. Fork ghas-bootcamp
  2. Go to exercises
  3. Try the labs

GitHub Copilot

• GitHub Copilot
• Copilot

Demos / Labs

• Rock, Paper, Scissors
  1. Fork copilot-rock-paper-scissors
  2. Follow instructions in the repo
  3. Use codespaces for setup
  4. Do core exercises
  5. (if time) try challenge exercises
• Prompt Engineering
  1. Fork copilot-prompt-engineering
  2. Repeat demos in the repo
• Building a Calculator with Copilot Chat
  1. In this repo, ask copilot to build a calculator
  2. Refer to copilot-demo-github-javascript if needed
• Using Copilot Enterprise
  1. Ask copilot chat about a repo and what it does
  2. Summarize PR with copilot

Else

GitHub Codespaces

• https://github.com/features/codespaces
• https://github.com/codespaces

GitHub Pages

• https://pages.github.com/
• https://github.com/skills/github-pages
• https://github.com/collections/github-pages-examples

GitHub Skills

• https://skills.github.com/

GitHub Learn Pathways

• https://resources.github.com/learn/pathways/

Misc

• https://opensource.guide/
• https://opensource.guide/starting-a-project/#your-pre-launch-checklist
• https://opensource.guide/legal/
• https://choosealicense.com/
• https://docs.github.com/en/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/adding-a-license-to-a-repository
• https://github.blog/developer-skills/github/how-to-write-better-prompts-for-github-copilot/
• https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/using-github-copilot/prompt-engineering-for-github-copilot
• https://dev.to/github/a-beginners-guide-to-prompt-engineering-with-github-copilot-3ibp
• https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/getting-started
• https://github.com/copilot-workshops/copilot-node-calculator
• https://github.com/features/copilot#pricing
• https://githubnext.com