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Managing Your Codebase with the GitHub API in Python

Get hands-on with GitHub APIs in Python. Learn to manage repositories, branches, and commits. Build a demo app integrated with GitHub. Confidently build in-demand skills.

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14 Lessons

1h 30min

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Get hands-on with GitHub APIs in Python. Learn to manage repositories, branches, and commits. Build a demo app integrated with GitHub. Confidently build in-demand skills.

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Course Overview

GitHub is one of the most popular code management platforms for software engineers. Developers can use Git to create and edit both personal and shared repositories, control access, and fork projects into various branches. These changes are approved by collaborators and merged back into the main branch before a final release. This course will walk you through various GitHub APIs and their endpoints. You’ll be introduced to authentication and integration with a GitHub developer account to leverage the APIs t...Show More

GitHub is one of the most popular code management platforms for software engineers. Developers can use Git to create and edit bo...Show More

What You'll Learn

Develop a deep understanding of the GitHub REST APIs.

Get a working knowledge of GitHub’s repository architecture and branches.

Learn to make commits and pull requests using GitHub APIs.

Learn to search, deploy, and release code on GitHub using the API.

Get hands-on experience with integrating the GitHub API into a Django application.

Develop a deep understanding of the GitHub REST APIs.

Course Content

Introduction

3 Lessons

Get familiar with using GitHub API to manage repositories, authenticate requests, and handle interactions.

Course Overview

Introduction to the GitHub REST API

Authentication

Code Management

4 Lessons

Get started with managing repositories, branches, commits, and leveraging search in GitHub API.

Repositories

Branches

Commits

Collaboration

3 Lessons

Collaborate in GitHub using collaborators, pull requests, and projects for efficient workflow management.

Collaborators

Pull Requests

Projects

Deployment

2 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of managing deployments and releases within GitHub using Python.

Deployments

Release

APIs Integration in Django

1 Lessons

Solve problems in integrating the GitHub API with Django for repository management.

Demo Application

Conclusion

1 Lessons

Focus on foundational GitHub REST API knowledge and encourage community feedback.

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