Chapter 1
Understanding the Git in GitHub
IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting familiar with GitHub
Discovering Git
Signing up with GitHub.com
Exploring helpful resources
Whether you’re an experienced coder or a newbie starting out, learning how to work with others on code is critical to succeeding in the software industry. Millions of people around the world work together to build software, and GitHub is one of the largest tools to support a collaborative workflow. This chapter introduces you to the core tools you need to write code with other people.
Introducing GitHub
GitHub creates an environment that allows you to store your code on a remote server, gives you the ability to share your code with other people, and makes it easy for more than one person to add, modify, or delete code to the same file and project, while keeping one source of truth for that file (phew!). So what does that all actually mean? One of my favorite ways of explaining GitHub.com to folks who are new to the tool is to compare it to Google Docs — a place online where you can write code with other people and not have ...
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