Crash course on version control and documentation with GitHub

Training materials and slides for a crash course on version control, clean code and documentation with practical examples and exercises in Python and R.

Creator

These materials were created by the University of Basel’s Research and Infrastructure Support RISE (rise@unibas.ch) in 2024 and 2025.

File structure

• slides as Markdown in crash-course-github/slides.md
• all images used in crash-course-github/images

Upcoming and past course dates

Course details: https://rise.unibas.ch/en/event/details/version-control-and-documentation-with-github-1/

• 2025-03-28: RISE crash-course “Version Control and Documentation with GitHub”, online
• 2024-04-19: RISE crash-course “Version Control and Documentation with GitHub”, online
• 2025-03-28: RISE crash-course “Version Control and Documentation with GitHub”, online

To dos

• Create release for course on April 19, 2024

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.