This workshop is a gentle introduction to Git, GitHub and Web Development with the goal of creating and publishing a personal portfolio website. We will start with a portfolio website template for geospatial professionals and learn how to edit and set up your GitHub repository to publish your website. We will also cover best practices on leveraging LLM-based AI assistants to extract and format content from existing documents and populate the portfolio.
At the end of the workshop, you will have a beautiful, modern, and customized portfolio website that is hosted for free on GitHub Pages and ready to be shared with your network.
No prior experience with Git or GitHub is required.
Example Portfolios
Below are some of the live portfolio websites created by participants from our past cohorts.
(click on any image to visit the site)
Workshop Outline
- Introduction and Fundamentals
- Basics of Git, GitHub, and Web Development
- Introduction to Markdown
- Introduction to MkDocs
- Setting up Your Local Development Environment
- Publishing Your Portfolio Site
- Updating the Site Content
- Updating Content Pages (LLM Assisted)
- Adding a New Page
- Deleting a Page
- Adding a Project Page (LLM Assisted)
- Adding a Notebook Project
Learn more about the course content on the Workshop Homepage.
Cost
The course fees are USD $75 / INR ₹5000+GST.
Student discounts available [Learn more]
Schedule
The course shall be held as a live online interactive class offered in 2 sessions of 3 hours each. The classes will be conducted over Zoom.
Below is the schedule for live sessions. Please verify the local times before registering.
- Wednesday June 10 2026: 6pm-9pm IST (3 hours) – Check Local time
- Thursday June 11 2026: 6pm-9pm IST (3 hours) – Check Local time
It is recommended to attend the sessions live for the optimal experience. We also record the live sessions and make them available to registered participants immediately after each day. If you do miss a session – you will be able to catch up using the recorded videos.
Register
Please use the appropriate forms below to book a seat. You must complete the online payment to confirm your spot. We accept all major credit/debit cards from over 150 countries. Indian residents have an option to pay via UPI also.
In case your plans change, you can cancel and obtain a full refund. See our cancellation policy
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A GST charge of 18% will be applied to the course fees upon checkout.
Workshop Reviews
This was an excellent course. I was introduced both to GitHub and to using AI to assist with coding detail. Ujaval is a very lucid speaker, and is attentive to any issues students in his online classes may be having keeping up to him. It was excellent value, being inexpensive and of very high quality. Ujaval remains accessible after the course and provides individual help, both of these things are quite unusual in an online course, and are to be commended.
Peter Kowalczyk, Sr. Consulting Geophysicist, Ocean Floor Geophysics, Canada.