What is Github? Every Things you Need To Know About

Little about GitHub

GitHub is the place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over five million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
GitHub offers both paid plans for private repositories, and free accounts for open source projects. The site was launched in 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett.

Dont be afraid its an easy and amazing tool that changed the way we work. Github gives you social networking functionality like feed,followers,comments and wikis for your repositories  and web pages you made in Github by your git repositories.
Github running on Ruby on Rails and Erlang.

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Git is a free and open source distributed version control software , it handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.Git


GitHub Features

Integrated issue tracking.
A flexible issue tracker lets you stay on top of bugs and focus on features. how

Collaborative code review.
Pull requests
Commit comments
Compare view

Easily manage teams within organizations/its paid. how

Signu up

Here wo go into this go to signup page and signup, after signup you will see options to get started. select 'Set Up Git' this will create your first repository.
setup page

You can work perfectly on web with your online repositories but if want to use it you local computer you need to download and install Git in your PC or Mac,

GitHub for Windows
GitHub for Mac

Github Changes there file locations so we are giving you its guide site about first repo.
Creating your first repository


Commands to use in GitHub, big reference links

Reference 
Basic Git commands list
Everyday GIT With 20 Commands Or So

some common github commands

To create a new git repository.

git init

git clone /path/to/repository
when working on remote server, your command will be
git clone username@host:/path/to/repository

To commit
git commit -m "Commit message"

To clone a git
git clone <repo>
git clone <repo> <directory>

Add command
git add <file>
git add <directory>

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Training from GitHub experts

GitHub is now providing training from their experts, you can join even you have noexperience
Checkout the training page here,

their classes types are:
Web-based Classes
In-person Training
High Quality Resources

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