What is Github?

Github is a way of version control your software development using Git, Github was founded in 2008 and recently Microsoft has bought the company now Microsoft is the parent organization of Github. So what do I mean by version control? When developing software the important hurdle is merging the version as part of development or update. Github helps developers in this perspective, this allows collaboration between the developers to work simultaneously.

Let’s create a Github Account

Step 1: Go to https://github.com, You can see a signup option. Click on that Signup option

Step 2: Firstly, you have to enter the username, few usernames won’t be available, so try the combinations with hyphens to create a unique one, Enter the email address which may need to verify later. Then password and Bot verification as shown below. Once this is done Create account button below will be active. Click on that to proceed further

Step 3: In the next, you can see few questions from GitHub to know about you. Once you are done filling those click on complete setup

1. What kind of work do you do mainly?
2. How much programming experience do you have?
3. What do you plan to use Github for?
4. You are interested in:

Step 4: Next step, Github will ask you to verify the account. As a final step it will ask you to verify the account, all you need to go to the email dashboard and verify the mail ID to proceed further.

Step 5: After verification, you will be redirected to the Github page as shown below, can also see whether your account is verified or not as highlighted below. I would recommend skipping this step to proceed further.

Step 6: This is how a newly created Github account looks like, we will learn how to create a repository and manage your profile in the upcoming posts. Let’s close this post by showing how a professional Github Account looks like.

GitHub Professional Accounts: Follow me on Github

FINAL VERDICT :

In conclusion, I hope you enjoyed reading this article on “How to create Github Account?”. In the next post, will be discussing using Git to create a Repository and clone a project Github. More Github Tutorial is available here Signing off Sanjay Kv

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