An Ultimate guide to GitHub

What will you learn in this lab?

• What is GitHub?
• How to get started?
• How does it work?
• GitHub terminologies
• From creating an account to making your first pull request

Let's get started!

What is GitHub?

• GitHub is a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration. You can collaborate with your friends, with people of your interests and build together.
• It lets you and others work together on projects from anywhere. You can contribute to various Open Source projects and projects from various other organisations.
• GitHub keeps a record of all the changes made to your project.

How does it work?

• It works on Version control, also known as source control, is the practice of tracking and managing changes to software code.
• Version control systems are software tools that help software teams manage changes to source code over time.
• Here, Git is an Open Source Distributed Version Control System on which GitHub is hosted. In simple words, Git:GitHub like Email:Gmail .