How to use GitHub effectively to improve yourself

Github is an open source code library and version control system with over 9 million developers. Github is a window for developers to open source their applications, and an important way for developers to quickly improve themselves. This article introduces github from two aspects.

Visit Github the same way you browse Weibo, moments and Spaces

You browse Weibo, moments, and myspace in your spare time, while others browse GitHub in their spare time to see what are the latest popular projects. As time goes by, the gap becomes bigger and bigger. So how do we browse Github like we browse Weibo, moments and Spaces?

• First of all, the same as microblog, moments, space, you want to see others in your moments of friends, first of all, you add someone else’s friend right. So first we have to look at some of the industry’s biggest names, like Jake Wharton
  
  
  

  

  
  After that, we can see the star, fork and other actions on the Github front page, which shows that the great open source projects are being followed or opened at this moment.

• Explore current open source projects using Github’s Explore feature
  
  
  

  

Have goals, needs, and need to find the wheels on Github

Not afraid of a problem, but afraid you don’t know what the problem is. That’s what I always say to people who ask me questions on my wechat account. Isn’t it easy to know what you need? Github has the same search functionality as regular browsers, so how do we take advantage of github’s search function?

• For example, search “CollectionView OR UICollectionView OR collection” instead of “CollectionView”.
  
  Here’s a comparison of results for the two search terms.
  
  
  

  

  
  

  

• In the image above, you can see that there are two clickable options at the bottom of the left sidebar, Advanced Search and Cheat Sheet. Click Advanced Search to customize the Advanced search criteria. Click Cheat Sheet to get some help on the search.
  
  
  

  

• Awesome + Your keywords: Search for some excellent frameworks, tutorials, projects, etc
  
  
  

  

• Github search skills, set conditions for search
• There are many other search skills, welcome to perfect together.

conclusion

It is better to teach people how to fish than to teach them how to fish. Many authors have collected many excellent open source projects, and I am going to start collecting the latest hot open source projects on Github. But I believe that we are looking at this kind of article, are this kind of mentality: gee! That’s a good one. Thumbs up. But the likelihood is not used at all now, arrive oneself are want to use when, still use go looking through all sorts of means, very troublesome. So, I’m going to go straight to github and teach you how to search. Let you find your own open source projects.

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