Introduction to GitHub
Signe Kirk Brødbæk 
Luke William Johnston
Welcome!
This 3-hour workshop is a gentle introduction to using GitHub for managing and working with files.
It is designed for doing participatory live-typing, where the teacher demonstrates the tasks on their computer connected to a projector while learners type along on their own computer. The workshop also includes reading tasks, discussion activities, and hands-on exercises.
This website contains all of the material for the workshop, including readings, exercises, presentations, live-typing material, and images. It is structured as a book, with “chapters” being the individual sessions that will be covered in order of appearance. We make heavy use of the website throughout the workshop where “type-along” sessions almost identically follow the material on the website (with slight modifications for time or more detailed explanations).
To get a better understanding of what the workshop covers, check out the overview section, starting with the Syllabus.
If you plan on attending the workshop, make sure to complete the Pre-workshop tasks to get set up and ready for the workshop. The pre-workshop tasks include a survey that you need to fill out before the workshop starts.
Target audiences
This website and its content are targeted to three groups:
- For the learners to use during the workshop, both to follow along and also to use as a reference after the workshop ends. A more detailed description of who the learner is can be found in Is this for you? in the Overview section.
- For the teachers to use as a guide for when they do the type-along sessions.
- For those who are interested in teaching, who may not have much experience or may not know where to start, to use this website as a guide to running and teaching their own workshops.
Re-use and licensing
The workshop material is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, so the material can be used, re-used, and modified, as long as there is attribution to this source. Check out the For teachers section for more details and tips on using this material for teaching.
Contributing
Want to contribute to this workshop? Look through our CONTRIBUTING page for contribution guidelines on how to get started.
Contributors
These are the people who have contributed by submitting changes through pull requests 🎉
How the website is made
The workshop material is created using Quarto to write the material and create the book format, GitHub to host the Git repository of the material, and GitHub Actions with Netlify to build and host the website. The source material for this workshop is found on the github-intro repository on GitHub.
By clicking the arrow at the bottom of each page, you’ll be taken through the workshop material in order ➡️