Listed below are some suggested resources that can help you dig deeper into Git and GitHub, and support your exploration of their capabilities!
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Pro Git: the encyclopedic documentation of Git by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub.
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Version Control 101: An introduction to the concepts of version control that underlie Git.
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GitHub Training and Guides Videos: The YouTube channel for all GitHub informational videos.
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How Digital Humanists Use GitHub: A presentation from Lisa Spiro and Sean Morey-Smith on their study of how Digital Humanists use GitHub.
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Get on GitHub: How one Information Studies student got into GitHub, and used its collaborative functions to learn about coding.
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Create Your (FREE) Website Using Github and Jekyll: GC Digital Fellow alumnus Keith Miyake's guide to using GitHub and Jekyll to create free websites.
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Building Static Sites with Jekyll & GitHub Pages: Amanda Visconti's guide to using Jekyll and GitHub Pages to create static sites.
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Zenodo You can use this tool to create a stable unique DOI identifier so you can site content on GitHub!
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Markdown for the Humanities: An article by Simon Coll on how academics can use Markdown in their writing process.
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Markdown for Librarians and Academics: Steven Ovadia's journal article introduction to academic uses of Markdown.
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"Sustainable Authorship in Plain Text Using Pandoc and Markdown.": Dennis Tenen and Grant Wythoff's guide to using Markdown and Pandoc in scholarly writing.