How to get yourself set up to use GitHub
(Windows Phone Central)

You don`t have to be a master programmer to use GitHub. Besides being a Microsoft property these days, GitHub is the largest place on earth for programmers to sync, share, and collaborate on code. Big companies and solo superstars use GitHub as well as everyone in between. If there`s an open-source project, chances are pretty high it`s hosted on GitHub. But it`s not just useful for folks writing code. Anyone can pull code and files from a public GitHub repo, and there are limitless projects you might want to interact with at some point. From bigger ones like Microsoft`s Visual Studio Code or Windows Package Manager to smaller ones like using someone else`s configuration files to theme your terminal. If it needs some form of code, it can be done through GitHub. But while you don`t need to know how to write code to use GitHub, to absolute beginners things can be a little confusing. It doesn`t have to be, though, so here are some of the basics you need to know. Set up a GitHub accou...