GitHub

Introduction

GitHub is a web site where you can store not just your code, but multiple versions of the same code. Additionally, GitHub allows other folks – your colleagues and I – to browse and review your code.

Unlike Glitch, GitHub doesn’t make your code live and interactive – which is why we need to use both. GitHub (or a very similar service) is commonly used by professional web development projects and open source projects, so it’s definitely something you’ll run into again if you decide to work in web development or collaborate with web developers.

Getting Started

Go to the GitHub homepage to sign up.

You do not need to pay for your GitHub account. The free level will work just fine for this purposes of this course.

Want to see detailed screenshots of the sign up process? View this walkthrough on wikiHow.