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Trying to grow in your career as a developer or software engineer? You’re in the right place. Explore articles, resources, interviews, and more that cover essential skills for developers, ranging from learning new programming languages and tools to improving soft skills such as communication and collaboration.

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How to use GitHub Copilot: What it can do and real-world examples

How Copilot can generate unit tests, refactor code, create documentation, perform multi-file edits, and much more.

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GitHub’s top blogs of 2024

Explore GitHub’s top blogs of 2024, featuring new tools, AI breakthroughs, and tips to level up your developer game.

How to generate unit tests with GitHub Copilot: Tips and examples

Learn how to generate unit tests with GitHub Copilot and get specific examples, a tutorial, and best practices.

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Introducing Annotated Logger: A Python package to aid in adding metadata to logs

We’re open sourcing Annotated Logger, a Python package that helps make logs searchable with consistent metadata.

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Boost your CLI skills with GitHub Copilot

Want to know how to take your terminal skills to the next level? Whether you’re starting out, or looking for more advanced commands, GitHub Copilot can help us explain and suggest the commands we are looking for.

Beginner’s guide to GitHub: Setting up and securing your profile

As part of the GitHub for Beginners guide, learn how to improve the security of your profile and create a profile README. This will let you give your GitHub account a little more personality.

Beginner’s guide to GitHub: Merging a pull request

As part of the GitHub for Beginners guide, learn how to merge pull requests. This will enable you to resolve conflicts when they arise.

How to level up your Git game with GitHub CLI

Using Git in the CLI can improve your development speed and power. Here are our top eight commands for using GitHub via your command line.

Beginner’s guide to GitHub: Creating a pull request

As part of the GitHub for Beginners guide, learn how to create pull requests. This will enable you to suggest changes to existing repositories.

How to use AI coding tools to learn a new programming language

Explore how AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot can accelerate your journey to learn new programming languages.

Beginner’s guide to GitHub: Adding code to your repository

Take the next step in our GitHub for Beginners series and add code to your repository. Learn how to create branches and upload changes into a pull request.

How to review code effectively: A GitHub staff engineer’s philosophy

GitHub Staff Engineer Sarah Vessels discusses her philosophy of code review, what separates good code review from bad, her strategy for finding and reviewing code, and how to get the most from reviews of her own code.

Beginner’s guide to GitHub: Uploading files and folders to GitHub

The next step in our GitHub for Beginners series is learning how to add files and folders to your GitHub repository.

Beginner’s guide to GitHub repositories: How to create your first repo

Git started on your first repository in the third installment of GitHub for Beginners. Discover the essential features and settings to manage your projects effectively.

Top 12 Git commands every developer must know

The latest installment of GitHub for Beginners, where we cover the essential Git commands to get you Git-literate.

What is Git? Our beginner’s guide to version control

Let’s get you started on your Git journey with basic concepts to know, plus a step-by-step on how to install and configure the most widely used version control system in the world.