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  Learn how to start building, shipping, and maintaining software with GitHub.
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  - Engineering principles
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  - Infrastructure
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  - Platform security
    Learn how we build security into everything we do across the developer lifecycle.
  - User experience
    Find out what goes into making GitHub the home for all developers.
- How we use GitHub to be more productive, collaborative, and secure
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    Application security, explained.
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    Demystifying supply chain security.
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- The enterprise guide to AI-powered DevSecOps
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Career growth

Career growth in software development and engineering roles is about more than just climbing the corporate ladder; it’s also about personal and professional development and adapting to new challenges and opportunities. Whether you’re just starting out in the tech industry or seeking to pivot into new opportunities, gain valuable insights and practical advice to help you achieve your career goals.

GitHub Education: student-tested, peer-reviewed, and now published by the Association of Computing Machinery

Using GitHub in the classroom leads to learning outcomes like preparation for the future and feeling part of a developer community.

GitHub Leadership Spotlight: Rachel White, Developer Experience Lead at American Express

Leader spotlight: Rachel White

We’re spending Women’s History Month with women leaders who are making history every day in the tech community. Read more about Rachel White: technologist, artist, pretend-cyborg, and currently the Developer Experience Lead at American Express.

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Save time with these tips, tricks, and scripts from SIGCSE 2019

This year’s Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) featured two sessions that will save you countless hours of marking and administrative friction: near-total automation and CS50’s tools helping students with their programs.

GitHub Leadership Spotlight: Laura Tacho, Director of Engineering at CloudBees

Leader spotlight: Laura Frank Tacho

We’re spending Women’s History Month with women leaders who are making history every day in the tech community. Read more about Laura Tacho: director of engineering at CloudBees, a Docker captain, and containers and CI/CD specialist.

GitHub Student Developer Pack

Student Developer Pack: a student’s runway to American Airlines

Spencer Kaiser, Principal Architect of Emerging Technology at American Airlines, shares his experience with the Student Developer Pack.

How GitHub Classroom and Travis CI improved students’ grades

Learn how Dr. Shane Wilson saved time and boosted student performance with the help of GitHub Classroom and Travis CI.

Welcome Campus Advisors

Congrats to the first class of Campus Advisors

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GitHub Classroom now supports multiple classrooms per organization

Now, if your school shares an organization, you may associate as many Classrooms with it as you like. Create multiple sections for teaching assistants, or store common course materials for your entire department to use.

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Merge conflicts in the classroom

Merge conflicts don’t have to be scary for you or your students! Learn how to help students resolve them.

How the GitHub Student Developer Pack helped this student get a tech job

Learning with real-world tools paid off for this Georgia State student.

Turning today’s students into tomorrow’s technologists with GitHub Education, a free program for schools

Now schools can get the tools businesses love for free in a new GitHub Education bundle.

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How to use pull requests in the classroom

Bring more organization to your project contributions with these improvements to issue templates.

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The most popular courses on GitHub

Thousands of teachers use GitHub to host their courses, distribute assignments, and get insight into student progress. Between Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and custom lessons from individual teachers, there’s plenty of materials for new teachers to adapt and reuse in their classrooms.

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How to use group assignments in GitHub Classroom

Like professional developers working together on code, students can use GitHub Classroom to collaborate on group projects in a shared repository. In this post, we’ll walk you through how teachers…

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Meet Josh Simpson, student, developer, and hackathon advocate

To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. Josh Simpson, who is currently pursuing his computer science degree at King’s College…

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