Introduction to Git and GitHub for beginners

Version control allows collaborative development which makes it easy for teams to work together on projects.

The effective use of version control is important and a useful skill for developers to have in their tool kit.

Git is a version control system which is like a series of snapshots of your code which can be referenced at any time.
GitHub  is a web based graphical interface where you can publish your Git repositories and collaborate with other people or teams.   Git and GitHub has become the industry-standard version control and publishing platform .  Git allows you to track changes and your development process and when used with GitHub it becomes an effective backup mechanism.

This course is for absolute beginners and will introduce you to the basics of using a version control system called Git and a collaboration platform called GitHub . Although this course does not involve any programming  students  who have a basic knowledge of programming or simple HTML might  find it easier to follow along . Also experience of using the command line might  come in handy though not mandatory as the course is so basic anyone can follow along easily.

• Creating an account on GitHub
• Installing Git
• Configuration for Git
• Creating directory
• Creating repository
• Add file to repository
• Add file to staging environment
• Commit file

At the end of this course students will understand the basics of Git and GitHub and be able to create repositories and commit files to them .

I look forward to welcoming you to the course.