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🎏 What is Gitub?

⭐ Tutor | Course overview and learning outcomes

Tutor: Nehemiah Onyekachukwu Emmanuel
The goal of this course is to introduce you to Github. Resources for further learning will be provided. 🚀

:octocat: Github

Github is many things in one.
It is the platform you are using to read this.
It is a way to use the same power of Git all online with an easy-to-use interface. It’s used across the software world and beyond to collaborate and maintain the history of projects.

GitHub is home to some of the most advanced technologies in the world. Whether you're visualizing data or building a new game, there's a whole community and set of tools on GitHub that can get you to the next step. This course starts with the basics of GitHub, but we'll dig into the rest later.

History of Github

Let's take a walk down memory lane.

GitHub, Inc. is a provider of Internet hosting for software development and version control using Git. It offers the distributed version control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git, plus its own features. It provides access control and several collaboration features such as bug tracking, feature requests, task management, continuous integration and wikis for every project. Headquartered in California, it has been a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018. It is commonly used to host open-source projects. As of November 2021, GitHub reports having over 73 million developers and more than 200 million repositories (including at least 28 million public repositories). It is the largest source code host as of November 2021. Development of the GitHub.com platform began on October 19, 2007. The site was launched in April 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett and Scott Chacon after it had been made available for a few months prior as a beta release. GitHub has an annual keynote called GitHub Universe. Reference, Wikipedia.

Features of Github

Github enables you to;

  1. Easy Project Management: GitHub is a place where project managers and developers come together to coordinate, track, and update their work so that projects are transparent and stay on schedule.

  2. Increased Safety With Packages: Packages can be published privately, within the team, or publicly to the open-source community. The packages can be used or reused by downloading them from GitHub.

  3. Effective Team Management: GitHub helps all the team members stay on the same page and organized. Moderation tools like Issue and Pull Request Locking help the team to focus on the code.

  4. Improved Code Writing: Pull requests help the organizations to review, develop, and propose new code. Team members can discuss any implementations and proposals through these before changing the source code.

  5. Increased Code Safety: GitHub uses dedicated tools to identify and analyze vulnerabilities to the code that other tools tend to miss. Development teams everywhere work together to secure the software supply chain, from start to finish.

  6. Easy Code Hosting: All the code and documentation are in one place. There are millions of repositories on GitHub, and each repository has its own tools to help you host and release code.

📚 Resources

Next Step ➡️

Go to Why Git and Github is necessary for Developers