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About the Book
Git is the de-facto standard Version Control System for Open Source projects and one of the most popular VCS for proprietary projects as well. GitHub is the most popular cloud-based hosting solution for projects using Git.
Reading this book and following the exercises will teach you how to use Git and GitHub to contribute to projects using these technologies. You will learn how to write automated unit and integration tests and how to set up Continuous Integration to run these tests on every change.
There are several exercises that will teach you how to fork a project and send a Pull-request. How to follow a project that makes progress while you are working on your contribution. During the course of the book you will also contribute to a number of Open Source projects.
You will learn how to set up Continuous Integration using Travis-CI and Appveyor.
About the Author
Gábor Szabó has been programming for more than 40 years in a number of languages and in various environments.
These days he usually helps companies improve their engineering practices by providing training, introducing test automation, CI/CD. Sometimes this includes building internal web sites. Gabor also loves explaining things and provides training to his corporate clients and also in the academia.
Gabor runs the Code Maven site and a number of its sub-site where he writes about technologies such as Python, Rust, Git, Continuous Integration, etc.
The first main language Gabor used was Perl and so he maintains the Perl Maven site and he is the chief editor of the Perl Weekly newsletter.
The books Gabor publishes are based on his course materials. They include lots of examples with detailed explanations. This way if you can't book a course with him, at least you can read the materials and learn by yourself.
If you have questions fell free to send him a message via LinkedIn.