Me confessing and asking Claude for help: Holy crap, as a teacher who considers them selves an expert in a lot of technology, I suck at GitHub, and knowing how to run a project and team based collaboration on GitHub.  can you provide a set of links to good getting started with GitHub.  links to online resources, youtube video creators, etc.  My goal is to learn how setup a repository, where I can collaborate with other, and quickly get up to speed with administrating a GitHub repository/project and learn how to manage  commit/push/pull request. 

Claude just being "nice": Don't be hard on yourself — GitHub collaboration is genuinely a different skill from just knowing how to code, and most tech people learn it on the job rather than formally. Here's a curated roadmap of resources:

🏁 Start Here — Official GitHub Resources

These are the best first stops because they're accurate, free, and maintained by GitHub itself.

• GitHub Hello World Tutorial — The official hands-on intro. Covers repos, branches, commits, and pull requests in under an hour. 👉 https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/hello-world

• GitHub Skills — Interactive courses that introduce repositories, branches, commits, and pull requests. No prerequisites, takes less than an hour. GitHub Learn by actually doing it inside GitHub. 👉 https://skills.github.com

• GitHub Docs — Collaborating with Pull Requests — The official reference for everything PR-related. 👉 https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests

🎮 Interactive / Hands-On Learning

• Learn Git Branching — A visual and interactive way to master Git commands and branching — probably the most intuitive explanation you'll find. GitHub It's game-like and genuinely fun. 👉 https://learngitbranching.js.org

📺 YouTube Channels

GitHub's Official Channel Short, focused videos straight from the source covering everything from cloning to pull requests. 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@GitHubGuides

FreeCodeCamp Covers all the basics: Git, GitHub, branches, commits, pull requests, etc. GitHub Their full Git & GitHub crash course is frequently recommended as the single best free video for beginners. 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp

Traversy Media Brad Traversy takes complex concepts and breaks them down like he's talking to a friend. No fluff, no overthinking — clear, practical instruction. DEV Community Great crash courses on Git/GitHub workflows. 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@TraversyMedia

The Net Ninja Short, focused videos — each video covers a single concept, making it easy to learn at your own pace. Analytics Insight Great for looking up specific things like "how do I resolve a merge conflict." 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@NetNinja

Fireship Fast, sharp explainers. Great for quickly understanding what something is before you go deeper. His "Git it? How to use Git and GitHub" video is excellent. 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@Fireship

📘 Free Structured Courses

• The Odin Project — Free full-stack curriculum that includes solid Git/GitHub modules with real projects built around collaboration workflows. 👉 https://www.theodinproject.com

• Google's Introduction to Git and GitHub (Coursera) — A proper structured course covering branching, pull requests, and team workflows. Free to audit. 👉 https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-git-github

🎯 Your Specific Learning Goals — Where to Focus

Since you specifically want to get up to speed on repo admin, collaboration, and push/pull requests, here's a suggested order:

1. Do the GitHub Hello World first — gets you oriented in 30 minutes

2. Watch FreeCodeCamp's Git crash course — fills in the command line fundamentals

3. Play Learn Git Branching — makes branching actually click visually

4. Work through GitHub Skills "Introduction to GitHub" — hands-on practice in a real repo

5. Read the Pull Requests collaboration docs — once you have the basics, this becomes very clear