GitHub is a development platform which you can use for source control. In this series of posts, we will look at how to sign up for and use GitHub.
Go to https://github.com and click Sign up:
Enter a username and password:
And then select a plan:
You can see the differences between the Personal and Team accounts:
You will be asked to then verify your email address, and you will be taken to the Github landing page. Let’s start by creating a new repository:
You will be asked to give the repository a name. We will call ours my-new-app. Note there cannot be spaces in the repository name. If you add space, it will automatically change those to -s.
Choose between public and private. For this one, we will choose private:
You can also add a gitignore:
And a license:
We will ignore these, and click Create Repository.
We now have our repository:
Note the URL of the repo:
As this repo is private, if anyone else tries to access the page, they will get a 404 error:
The repository provides instructions for some things we can do:
Next, we will look at installing GitHub for Windows and how to commit files to a repository.
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