About This Course

Whether you’re building big data applications, developing data pipelines, or working on machine learning projects, it’s essential to manage changes to your code. Although developers and data scientists have employed a variety of tools for this over the years, an open source version control system called git has emerged as the standard tool for thousands of organizations around the world. This course introduces students to the Git version control system through a series of lectures, demonstrations, and exercises.

Course Length

This module includes over an hour of video content. The hands-on exercises for this free course  requires your own environment. They may take up to 3 hours.

If you have a paid subscription you should enroll in Just Enough Git which includes an environment.

Audience and Prerequisites

This course is best suited to developers and data scientists who feel comfortable performing basic operations from the Linux command line. No prior experience with git or other revision control systems is necessary.