GitHub and Git For Beginners 🐱‍👤

Author(s): Fatma Elik

Originally published on Towards AI.

A detailed explanation for developers 👩🏻‍💻🧑🏻‍💻👨🏻‍💻

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Git is installed and maintained in your local system. It is an open-source version control system (VCS) with no user management tools. Thanks to VSC, you can see past versions of your code scripts. GitHub is a hosting service for git repositories. Because GitHub is cloud-based, you can share your code with the world!

Let’s make clear some terms we will use: 🧩🧩

IDE: An integrated development environment (IDE) is a tool for writing, editing, and debugging code. Visual Studio Code, Pycharm, Jupyter etc.Directory: It is the path of the folder you are in terminal.Terminal: It is the command line platform in your code writing IDE. Here you command type code scripts and make updates.CLI: The command line interface is the place where you write text and is often called a command processor or shell.cd: Helps changing directory and moving into the folder.Code Editor: Same as IDE but without GUI.Repository: A place in github where we keep our projects.Git: It is the tracking tool that is used when the code is changed.Github: A platform where we work in a group common project.git command: There are a… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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