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Hey, everyone.

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Me and some of my stock asset friends here are very happy to welcome you to the Gett and GitHub boot

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camp.

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So none of these people are my real friends, but they are free images from my slide software, which

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is pretty good, too.

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And they'll be making some appearances throughout the course in my diagrams anyway.

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None of these fine folks are actually me.

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This is me here.

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Hello everyone.

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My name is Colt Steele.

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I never know how much detail to go into in my background, but I'll say that I've been teaching people

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how to program for almost a decade.

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I've helped thousands of people change careers in my in-person boot camps, but I've also reached over

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a million students online.

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I always feel a bit weird talking about it, but you can always check out my LinkedIn or my instructor

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bio if you want more information.

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All that really matters is that I actually really enjoy teaching it.

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It's a challenging thing to teach and it's a creative challenge for the teacher.

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So I hope you enjoy the course.

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I've spent a lot of time trying to make it the best possible course.

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So if you're watching this, you probably already know that it is this amazing, universal, widespread

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tool that, along with GitHub, enables and empowers millions and millions of users and companies ranging

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from tiny startups all the way up to Fortune 50 companies to build things together, to collaborate

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and to maintain applications.

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So you probably already know that.

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And a lot of people know it.

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They know it's crucial, yet it often goes ignored.

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It's not the most glamorous topic to learn at the beginning.

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I totally get why a lot of people prioritize learning JavaScript or CSFs or Python or pretty much anything

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over Ghiz.

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But the truth is, this is a very annoying expression that the best time to learn git is.

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Yesterday somebody told me something very similar, a neighbor, actually, about how the best time

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to plant fruit trees is.

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Five years ago.

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When you hear something like that, it's it's natural to want to punch that person, strangle them,

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or maybe just roll your eyes.

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But there is some truth to this.

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But also there's another piece to that sentence.

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The second best time to learn get is now the second best time to plan for trees is today, probably

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the second best time to plant fruit trees.

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It was four years ago.

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Anyway, the point is that it's very important to try and learn, get as soon as possible along whatever

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journey you're on.

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The sooner you learn it, the better, because it's not just about learning some syntax that takes some

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time.

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But, you know, you can watch a video or a course or read a book and and learn the basics, but it

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takes more work.

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There's more than just learning the basic syntax.

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The real work comes with part two or what I'm calling step two, actually living as a user and breathing

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it.

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It needs to become second nature.

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It becomes a fundamental part of your workflow that takes time.

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Right.

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That's why the best time to learn get it yesterday, blah, blah, blah.

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But also that's the goal of this course to help get become second nature.

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So not just to teach you the basics, it's also helping you just learn and live it, breathe it in as

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a user.

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And that takes time and it takes practice.

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So that's why this course is more than just a bunch of lectures, although it's a ton of lectures.

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Obviously, I can't get around that.

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That is one of the core pieces of the course.

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It has to be educational.

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There's going to be that explaining the syntax and demonstrating how things work.

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But but also there are quite a few exercises that I built to try and force you to get practice to try

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and sort of steer you towards becoming one with GIs.

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So I highly recommend you do those.

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I'll point them out in a separate video.

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I want to talk about some strategies for them.

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I also tried to make it somewhat interesting and entertaining, but also visually.

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I spent way too much time.

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I think making diagrams and get is something that I think benefits a lot from thinking about in a visual

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way.

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So I spent a lot of time making these diagrams.

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I hope you appreciate them.

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And I guess that's really all I have to say right now.

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Welcome to the course, everyone.

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I hope you enjoy it.

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And I'll end this welcome video with one not at all important note.

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In my courses I often reference my pet chickens throughout my courses.

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I'll use their names in different files or in exercises and diagrams, and students inevitably demand

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photos or videos of my chickens.

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So I'm just going to get it out of the way here if you want to see them.

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Here they are.

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All right.

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So we'll go ahead and get started once again.

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Welcome.

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And I hope you enjoyed the course.