Your very First GitHub Repository.

This write up is specifically targetted to young individuals/newbies just venturing into the world of tech and they have little to no clue as to how they can create a Github repository.

Before we begin there are a couple of things, we need to take note of:

1. what is GitHub
2. Sign Up on GitHub
3. Create a new Repository.

Let’s Begin.

1. What is GitHub

Well, GitHub is first a website, then a service, but is that all GitHub is ??

Not quite, you see for us to have a good understanding of Github, we must first have a good know what the term Git stands for and also what the hub represent before we move on to the next section.

— Some Common Terms:

GIT: In simple terms, Git is known as Version Control.

By now you may be wondering what is version control?

Okay, for example, a developer creates an app or a web platform, there is an expectation that he will need to create new versions of that very app or web platform right??

Here’s where version control system comes in(GIT), basically version control, helps to keep these versions, storing every modifications into a repository.

Allowing developers to collaborate as they can download a new version of a project, make changes to the project, and upload the newest version. In the system, every developer on that project can see the changes and also contribute.

Apparently, other developers or non-developers can still download the files and still make use of them.

HUB: With Git being explained, we can infer that the word hub involves all the process that revolves around Git.

Then GitHub simply means a place where developers network with other developers and also store different projects.

There’s a lot more that goes into the concept of git and GitHub, but let us move to the second section which is having an account on Github.

Sign Up:

The first step to signing up on GitHub is to first of all head towards the web address which is https://github.com/:

After which click on the “Sign-up” button which leads you to this page:

If you have an account already, just click on the “Sign-in” button and go to this page:

And that’s how you get to sign up on your git hub account .

Now to the final section:

Create a new Repository:

At the very top right of your screen, locate a circular shaped icon.

Once you click on it, a dropdown shows up, click on “Your repositories” which will redirect you to your repository page what we are after is the section that has a green color with “New”

Once the green button is clicked, please put in the necessary information as seen in the image below:

Once all information has been completed, click on the green button “Create repository”.

And with that, you have completed your first step in creating a Repository.