Git and GitHub

A guide to set-up Git and GitHub
Important

Please read the full guide if something does not work: it is very likely that the answer to your problem lies just a few lines after wherever you stopped reading.

First follow this set up Git tutorial1 and then follow this tutorial to get a gentle introduction to Git and GitHub.

Summary of the steps

  1. Create a GitHub account
  2. Install Git
  3. Create a repository and clone it to your computer
  4. Create a file and push it to GitHub

If all of the above worked, you are ready to go.

Next steps

You should follow the instructions you received by email to join the GitHub organization of your course. This will allow you to access the course repository and to submit your assignments.

Footnotes

  1. If you need more help installing and using git, see this tutorial.↩︎