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GitHub Launches Bot-Powered Learning Lab for New Developers (venturebeat.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the pointy-haired-bot dept.

An anonymous reader quotes VentureBeat: GitHub is launching a new bot-powered learning lab to help budding developers get up to speed on all things GitHub... The GitHub Learning Lab, which officially launched Thursday, builds on GitHub's prior history of training people, except this time GitHub is using bots to expedite the learning process. There is no videoconferencing or webcasts here. "After training thousands of people to use Git and GitHub, the GitHub Training Team has established a tried-and-true method for helping new developers retain more information and ramp up quickly as they begin their software journeys," the company said in a blog post. "And now, we're making those experiences accessible to developers everywhere with GitHub Learning Lab."

The bot helps users work through issues in a repository environment, passing comment on any work that you do while checking over pull requests -- notifications of changes you've made -- in a similar fashion to how a human project lead might do. If the bot isn't able to help with a specific question you have, there are humans on hand too via the GitHub Learning Lab forum, which includes outside experts and members of GitHub's in-house training team.

9 comments

  1. GitHub? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    An obvious Kremlin front to steal your code and make you a communist boot licker.

    1. Re: GitHub? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Or maybe a capitalist cock sucker.

    2. Re: GitHub? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Finally. Robots to move all those floppy disks around

  2. What is github? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Just so I know, why demand people make their crappy copy-paste spaghetti code public?

  3. GitHub is massive. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    1. Centralization (all for me!).
    2. Massive.
    3. Monopoly.
    4. Service for profit in a near future.
    5. Unforkable this web or their parts.
    6. ???
    7. Profit!

  4. Oh, right. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    To get new meat into the grinder.

    Because as popular as it is, nobody actually needs github, but it really really really wants you to think you do.

  5. H1B? by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

    budding developers

    I had to deal with an offshore team once and "bud bud bud" was the only thing they could say.

    --
    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
    1. Re:H1B? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They never asked you to "do the needful, dear"?

  6. An apology from APK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hello everyone. I would like to apologize for begin the raging asshole that I am. You see I am now undergoing a treatment program in an attempt to resolve my many issues. In going through this self discovery process I have discovered that a lot of my problems, especially with my inadequacy, centers around the fact that I was repressing my homosexuality. I now know that homosexuality isn't bad it is just the repression of it and the problems that causes are bad. Most notably his repression caused me to act out at anyone who rightfully pointed out my failings. I realize now that so much of what I said was just wrong. I also realize that I have developed serious problems such as stalking, harassment, poor physical health, and feelings of inadequacy. To this end I would like to apologize to the entire slashdot community.

    APK

    P.S. => As part of my treatment I have been forced to read what I wrote and realize now that all the mockery and insults I received were fully justified... apk