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Git and GitHub for Beginners Step-by-Step Guide
You’ve heard that every developer “should be on GitHub,” but the first time you open it, the tabs, branches and pull requests feel like a foreign language. Good news: the whole thing comes down to one repeatable loop, and you can learn it in an afternoon.
No prior coding experience required. If you can edit a text file, you can follow along.
What is the difference between Git and GitHub?
Git is a version control program that runs on your own computer. GitHub is a website that stores your Git projects online so other people can see them and work on them with you. You can use Git without GitHub, but GitHub is built entirely on top of Git.
Think of Git as the camera that takes snapshots of your project every time you save meaningful progress. GitHub is the shared photo album in the cloud where your whole team keeps those snapshots, comments on them and decides which ones make the final cut.
Git on your computer and GitHub online · push up, pull down
