Developer skills

Trying to grow in your career as a developer or software engineer? You’re in the right place. Explore articles, resources, interviews, and more that cover essential skills for developers, ranging from learning new programming languages and tools to improving soft skills such as communication and collaboration.

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GitHub for Beginners: Your roadmap to mastering the GitHub essentials

New to GitHub? This beginner’s guide explains version control, repositories, and pull requests—plus everything else you need to start working confidently on GitHub.

Transitioning as a Hubber

How GitHub’s culture and benefits helped me be the best version of myself.

I automated my job (and it made me a better leader)

Explore how my day as a senior leader looks now that I use 40 automations to help, and learn more about some of my favorites.

GitHub for Beginners: Answers to some common questions

Find the answers to some of the most common GitHub-related questions.

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GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Git and GitHub in VS Code

Discover how to use VS Code to interact with GitHub and maintain your projects.

Dungeons & Desktops: 10 roguelikes that never die (because their communities won’t let them)

Roguelikes don’t die. They fork, mutate, get argued over, rewritten, abandoned, and revived again. Sometimes all at once.

Dungeons & Desktops: Building a procedurally generated roguelike with GitHub Copilot CLI

Learn how one Hubber used GitHub Copilot CLI to build an extension that turns any codebase into a unique, roguelike dungeon.

GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with OSS contributions

Learn how to find opportunities to contribute to the open source community.

GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Markdown

Discover how to format and edit your comments and posts using Markdown.

GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Pages

Learn how to create a free website for any repository on GitHub Pages.

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GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Copilot CLI

GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with the GitHub Copilot CLI, a step-by-step tutorial.

Agent-driven development in Copilot Applied Science

I used coding agents to build agents that automated part of my job. Here’s what I learned about working better with coding agents.

GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub security

Learn how to secure your projects and keep them safe with GitHub Advanced Security.

Building AI-powered GitHub issue triage with the Copilot SDK

Learn how to integrate the Copilot SDK into a React Native app to generate AI-powered issue summaries, with production patterns for graceful degradation and caching.

GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Actions

Set up your first GitHub Actions workflow in this how-to guide.

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Scaling AI opportunity across the globe: Learnings from GitHub and Andela

Developers connected to Andela share how they’re learning AI tools inside real production workflows.

GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Issues and Projects

Learn how to get organized and collaborate more efficiently with this step-by-step tutorial.

7 learnings from Anders Hejlsberg: The architect behind C# and TypeScript

Anders Hejlsberg shares lessons from C# and TypeScript on fast feedback loops, scaling software, open source visibility, and building tools that last.

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Context windows, Plan agent, and TDD: What I learned building a countdown app with GitHub Copilot

Learn how I managed context to keep Copilot focused, used the Plan agent to sharpen vague requirements, and required Test Driven Development practices to catch bugs before users.