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It’s no secret that making your first contribution to open source can be intimidating. A Major League Hacking survey found that a majority of students know that contributing to open…

GitHub’s engineering group moved from a monolithic, hero-based on-call rotation to a more balanced on-call culture in order to increase our on-call expertise and improve the experience for our customers.

How GitHub Education and Major League Hacking have teamed up to bridge the gap between school and work.

Last year at GitHub Universe, we introduced the GitHub Security Lab, which is committed to contributing resources, tooling, bounties, and security research to secure the open source ecosystem. We know…

GitHub Campus Advisors are teachers who are enthusiastic about teaching with Git and GitHub. Whether or not they come from a technical background, they’re deeply passionate about technology and sharing…

What we look for from applicants, plus an overview of how the application process works.

Learn about nbdev, a new literate programming environment for Python.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 22-year old United States law meant to strike a complicated balance between art, code, and speech on the net — impacting users…

@demetris11 embarks on a journey of curiosity and discovery in her new role overseeing DI&B strategy at GitHub

It’s time for Major League Hacking’s (MLH) annual Local Hack Day: Learn, a worldwide celebration of learning. Do you have a framework that you have wanted to try? Or perhaps…

A free two-day single track conference live on September 24 – 25, 2020 in celebration of our culture and LatinX heritage month. You will join a live stream of interactive talks by industry experts in both Spanish, Portuguese and English, with live captioning and translation. Topics will include software development, security, technical project management, civic tech, open source, professional development and best practices.

Class of 2020, you did it! With schools turning to drive through diploma stops and recreating their campus in Minecraft, GitHub Education decided that celebrating this milestone for the next…

We’re partnering with Hack Club to support the students behind Summer of Making, a new remote, student summer program. From building Arduino-powered robots to creating an open source game, we’re excited to see students channel their passions and build with the Hack Club community this summer.

Learn about some new ways students can code in the browser. With online integrated development environments (IDEs), students can get right to work in a web browser, avoiding software conflicts that might happen on their local machines.

Learn how Ben Sassoon used the Pack to curb panic buying during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now more than ever, students need opportunities to sustain their growth, using real tools, and an experienced understanding of how to work remotely and globally. With this new program, we’re helping to support the next generation of developers and the open source projects that companies use every day.

Check out Alyson La’s favorite tips for getting started with Git and GitHub. Get into the GitHub Flow, try out a few tools, practice merge conflicts, and more!

From GitHub Actions and magic URLs to gists, check out Jason Etcovich’s top ten tips and tricks to help you hack your GitHub experience.

#NewYearNewPack winner Frank Matranga shares how the Pack helped him bring his open-source student planner to life.

Many teachers are moving to virtual solutions for managing student assignments, projects, and grading. Join webinars hosted by GitHub Education Experts to share how teachers can manage and organize their class with GitHub Classroom.

Learn more about autograding and how it provides students with immediate feedback they can apply before an assignment is due.