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Git & GitHub are one of the best combinations software/environment platforms that helps many users, not just only programmers but project developers, creators, decorators... to have a place to store files and share their works to the social area. This page will contain an overview for Git and GitHub. Hope you enjoy reading it!

Overview about Git

Git is an Open Source Distributed Version Control System.

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To explain the word Git, there are many ways to define it:

  • Control System: It acts like a "portable device" that can help you store your files and also track your progress for a particular project.
  • Version Control System: Git is similar to other softwares in terms of updates, there are many version of Git and programmers can append or alter the code for it as well.
  • Distributed Version Control System: Git has the ability to "pull" and "push" your work from your local machines to the online storage and vice versa.

To summarise them, using Git will help you manage your files like a professional developer and your projects will be more organised as well as having many contribution from different people.

The above information will be much clearer when you attend the git-tutorial course!

Git Tutorial

Overview about GitHub

GitHub is a coding platform that can help you store and share your projects with your friends. In GitHub, repositories are the online folder that in charge of your files, and people that have access to your repositories can manage your files as well. Furthermore, GitHub allows users to communicate by leaving comments to enhance their projects or sharing the repositories to each other.

People might consider Facebook as the easiest and the most well-known social media, but only the professional programmers know how to use GitHub!

GitHub Tutorial

References

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freecodecamp.org. "An Introduction to Git"
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-git-and-how-to-use-it-c341b049ae61/ (accessed December 3th, 2020)

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