Mastering GitHub: From First Commit to Autonomous Agents (Coursera Specialization)

Nine courses covering GitHub end-to-end — from your first pull request through enterprise administration, AI-assisted development, security, governance, and autonomous testing agents. The full operator's curriculum for the platform that runs modern software.

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What You Will Build

A production GitHub workflow: Codespaces-based dev environments, Actions pipelines, enterprise-grade security and identity controls, AI-augmented prompt engineering for code, governance for AI-generated contributions, and autonomous testing and refactoring agents.

Courses in This Specialization

1. GitHub: From Zero to Pull Request — Git fundamentals, branches, PRs, and the collaborative review loop.
2. GitHub: Codespaces, Actions, and Ecosystem Tools — Dev containers, GitHub Actions, Projects, and the extension marketplace.
3. GitHub Enterprise Administration — Organization policies, SAML/SSO, audit logs, and enterprise rollouts.
4. GitHub: Advanced Prompt Engineering for Code — Copilot, prompt design, and context management for code generation.
5. GitHub Production Applications — Shipping production apps with GitHub as the platform.
6. GitHub: Governing AI-Generated Code — Policies, review patterns, and provenance for AI contributions.
7. GitHub: Security, Identity, and Access — Advanced Security, Dependabot, secrets scanning, and access models.
8. GitHub: Evaluating and Integrating AI Models — Model evaluation, A/B testing, and integration patterns.
9. GitHub: AI-Augmented Testing and Refactoring — Autonomous test generation, mutation testing, and AI-driven refactors.

Who This Is For

• Developers new to Git and GitHub who want a complete path
• Platform engineers rolling out GitHub at the enterprise level
• Staff engineers governing AI-generated code in their organization

Related Specializations

• AI Tooling — builds AI workflows on the GitHub foundation
• Building Cloud Computing Solutions at Scale — cloud context for GitHub-deployed systems

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