GitHub for Dummies

Sarah Guthals received her PhD from UCSD in computer science specializing in CS Education in 2014. During graduate school, she built the beta version of CodeSpells, a 3D immersive video game designed to teach children to code through playing a wizard and writing spells. Sarah went on to cofound ThoughtSTEM, a company that builds software (for example, LearnToMod), curriculum, and pedagogies for teaching children to code and empowering K–12 teachers to teach their students. Sarah has written four books around Minecraft, one on mobile app development, one on making digital games, and one on helping adults teach kids coding; launched a Coursera and EdX course for teachers interested in teaching…

Phil Haack is the founder and CEO of Haacked LLC where he coaches software organizations and helps them become the best versions of themselves. To do this, Phil draws upon his seven years of experience at GitHub where he was a director of engineering and helped make GitHub friendly to developers on the Microsoft platform. He also draws upon his experience at Microsoft where he was a senior program manager responsible for shipping ASP.NET MVC and NuGet, among other projects. These products had permissive open source licenses and ushered in Microsoft’s Open Source era. Phil is a coauthor of the popular Professional ASP.NET MVC series and regularly speaks at conferences around the world. He’s a…