Setup Github Account

Here we go, in this post, we will setup github account and will see how we can create our first repository.

GitHub is a web-based Git or version control repository and Internet hosting service. It helps us manage our code in a systematic manner, irrespective how big is your organisation. It offers all of the distributed version control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git as well as adding its own features.

Account setup for github is pretty simple, go to github offical website, you will see something like this:

Fill in the details of email details like username, email id, password etc.

Once you press, sign up, you will redirected to page to select your plans based on your usage.

Once you press continue, after selecting the plan, you will be asked certain basic information to understand what stuff you are going to do it over github and what are your area of interest etc.

Note:These information is optional.

Once you submit, you will receive a email to activate your account, follow the instruction on email. Once account is activated, you will be redirected to below page to get started with repo creation.

Press start project, to get started with creating our first project.

Fill in the required information in the above page, the repository get created with README.md and click create repository to get the repository created.

Once it is done, you will be able to see something like this:

We have successfully created the repository!

Keep reading the blog for upcoming post on how to make most out of github repository.

Cheers!!