Join Tim Storer, University of Glasgow, for a practical walkthrough of using GitHub for hosting and sharing code – useful for both teachers and learners (13+) and the positive impact that contributing to the GitHub community can have.
GitHub is by far the world’s largest source control hosting provider, managing many millions of git repositories, including software development efforts that are vital to modern IT infrastructures, such as the Linux Kernel, the nginx web server and the cPython interpreter.
However, GitHub is also a collaboration platform that has enabled the development of a vast community of open source contributors, many of whom are practicing software professionals with active careers in the software industry.
Building a profile on GitHub as an early career software professional can be key to distinguishing yourself to recruiters through both the development of a portfolio of personal projects and making contributions to larger established projects.
