I've gotten as far as creating repos, branching, merging and pushing them to github. Oh, and not publishing my livejournal passwords in my repo. Anymore.
But yeah, not the most beginner-friendly thing in the world, and most of what's on github i'll probably never even touch. I forked a repository but i still don't know how to submit a pull request. I don't even know how to delete it. Feh.