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  • 1: Introduction
    • 1.1: What is Coding?
    • 1.2: Web Browsers
    • 1.3: Command Line
    • Additional Resources 1
  • 2: Basic Data Manipulation
    • 2.1: Operations
    • 2.2: Variables
    • 2.3: Our First Program
    • Additional Resources 2
  • 3: Structuring and Debugging Code
    • 3.1: Functions
    • 3.2: Errors
    • Additional Resources 3
  • 4: Conditional Logic
    • 4.1: Intro to Logic
    • 4.2: Pseudo-Code, Boolean OR
    • 4.3: Boolean AND, NOT
    • 4.4: Input Validation
    • Additional Resources 4
  • 5: Managing State and Input Validation
    • 5.1: Program Lifecycle and State
    • 5.2: Program State for Game Modes
    • Additional Resources 5
  • 6: Arrays and Iteration
    • 6.1: Arrays
    • 6.2: Loops
    • 6.3: Loops with Arrays
    • Additional Resources 6
  • 7: Version Control
    • 7.1: Git
    • Additional Resources 7
  • 8: GitHub
    • 8.1: Intro to GitHub
    • 8.2: GitHub Fork and Clone
    • 8.3: GitHub Pull Request
    • 8.4: GitHub Repo Browsing
    • 8.5: Deployment
    • Additional Resources 8
  • Homeworks
    • Day 2: Basic File and Data Manipulation
    • Day 3: Functions
    • Day 4: If Statements, Boolean Or, Boolean And
    • Day 5: Program State
    • Day 7: Loops
    • Day 8: Arrays and Loops
  • Projects
    • Project 1: Scissors Paper Stone
      • Project 1: Scissors Paper Stone (Part 1)
      • Project 1: Scissors Paper Stone (Part 2)
    • Project 2: Beat That!
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  • Why Use GitHub?
  1. 8: GitHub

8.1: Intro to GitHub

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Learning Objectives

  • Be familiar with GitHub

  • Understand briefly how GitHub extends the capabilities of Git

Introduction

GitHub is a web application that hosts Git repositories on the internet. It is a centralised set of repositories developers use to hold "official" copies of their code.

Why Use GitHub?

In Fundamentals we'll be using GitHub as a place to download starter code, and, when we cover 8.2 (GitHub Fork and Clone) we'll use it to submit projects and store our code and code versions online.

Don't worry for now if the structure of local and remote repositories seems confusing, we'll be covering these topics again more in-depth in 8.2 and 8.3.

A Git "remote" is a shared copy of a code repository, typically hosted on a platform like GitHub