Using GitHub as a Beginner
Starting your tech/coding journey, you must have come across the word “Git” and “GitHub”.
What is GitHub….?
GitHub is an online software development platform. It’s used for storing, tracking, and collaborating on software projects.
I am going to show you some basic features GitHub has that can help beginners and people who do not like to use the command line.
Basic Terminologies
- Repository:Repositories in GIT contain a collection of files of different versions of a Project.
- Git Pull:The term pull is used to receive data from GitHub. It fetches and merges changes from the remote server to your working directory.
- Git Push:The git push command is used to upload local repository content to a remote repository.
- CLI:This is a command line program that accepts text input to execute operating system functions.
- Git:Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
First Part (Visual Studio workspace / GitHub Codespace)
Let me introduce you to this amazing feature.
This helps you to create a code space to start developing in a secure, configurable, and dedicated development environment that works how and where you want it to. Now you don’t have to download VS-code on your PC for you to be able to code.
Everything you will be doing will automatically be stored for you in your preferred repository. Also, you can start using a blank template or preferably a custom template.
First of all, create a GitHub account https://github.com/ .
Create a Codespace for yourself and start your project.
Part 2 ( Intro to Drag-and-Drop files)
Do you know that instead of using “git cli” to push and pull (i.e post and fetch) between your local and remote repository, there is another way?
There is a feature in GitHub that allows users to “drag and drop” their files from their local system to a remote repository.
Steps:
1. Create your project folder on your local PC.
2. Start your project.
3. Open your GitHub account.
4. Create a GitHub repository for your project
5. Open it and click on “add file”.
6. Select your project folder and upload it.
When you complete the above steps, then you are no longer a beginner.
We will then move into deeper things.
Thank you
