Learning resources

This page contains general guidance about GitHub.

It’s not specific to the Analytical Platform, and the Analytical Platform team cannot provide support or troubleshoot GitHub issues.

If you need help, ask in the #ask-about-github Slack channel.

If you are new to git and you want to learn more, you may find the following resources useful:

• The GitHub training kit, including the git cheat sheet and the GitHub training manual
• GitHub skills courses, including the introduction to GitHub
• The GitHub documentation, including the get started guide and the hello world exercise
• Happy git and GitHub for the useR
• The learn git branching interactive tutorial
• The git from the inside out blog post
• git – the simple guide
• The coffee and coding session on understanding git and GitHub

There is also a git training course that runs regularly for members of Data & Analysis. Contact the Data & Analysis learning and development team to find out more and register your interest.

This page was last reviewed on 24 August 2026. It needs to be reviewed again on 24 August 2027 by the page owner #ask-about-github .