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JavaScript Introducing GitHub

Posted by CHIRAG MUTREJA
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CHIRAG MUTREJA
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 44 Points

what is github?

what is github?

5 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Github is an online software repository and collaboration platform. If the video you're watching doesn't give you a complete picture (the title sounds like it should!), there's also a Github Basics course that might do the job more thoroughly.

Pawel Ellwart
Pawel Ellwart
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Pawel Ellwart
Pawel Ellwart
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You can store there your own programming projects and code, it's very popular and useful if you build more complex projects. For example, you can create many versions of your projects and manage them, it's easier than store everything on your local computer. For more info check: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/github-basics

Michael Nunez
Michael Nunez
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Michael Nunez
Michael Nunez
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Simply put, GitHub is a website where developers store and share code. Anyone can sign up for free and join the developer community. GitHub is based on Git which is a system for preventing code loss and collaborating with others. I highly recommend, going through the Git Introduction Course then Github Basics here on Treehouse!

Daniel Ocampo
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Daniel Ocampo
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 59 Points
Daniel Ocampo
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Daniel Ocampo
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 59 Points

GitHub is a place where you can store, pull, share and save your code.It can also be used for project collaboration where you can work with others to modify code and save different versions of the code. You can learn more about it here: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/github-basics

Michael Kristensen
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Michael Kristensen
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Michael Kristensen
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Michael Kristensen
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 26,251 Points

A very simplistic answer, just to establish a reference point when you're first introduced to Git and GitHub, is that GitHub is like a DropBox or Google Drive for your code; you can store your code online, and share it with others, and even have backups of earlier versions of projects saved and indexed for easy back-tracking to earlier progress points.