GitHub Foundations Part 1 of 2

GitHub Foundations Part 1 of 2 is a Microsoft Learn learning path that introduces Git and GitHub from scratch. Microsoft's catalog lists it at 404 minutes, which we show as 6.7 hours, and tags it both beginner and intermediate, so we leave the level unset. Eight modules run in order: an introduction to Git, an introduction to GitHub, GitHub's products, configuring code scanning, an introduction to GitHub Copilot, coding with GitHub Codespaces, managing work with GitHub Projects, and communicating on GitHub using Markdown. Modules are text units with a knowledge check at the end; several include hands-on exercises that you complete in your own GitHub account, which is free to create.

The training itself is free, like all Microsoft Learn content, and can be read without a Microsoft account, though signing in records progress and awards a completion trophy. Microsoft does not issue a certificate for completing a learning path, so we list it without a credential; the GitHub Foundations certification exam that the two-part series prepares for is a separate paid product and is not listed here. Part 2 of 2 continues with further GitHub features.