How to Sign Up for a GitHub Account
This is going to be a quick lesson where I show you how to sign up for a GitHub account.
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So open up the browser. I have mine in incognito mode because in the real browser and the regular browser I'm already signed into github. So you just go to github.com. And from here you just pick out your username. So I'm going to say devenv and then demo. Let's see if that one is available and it is. And then give so whatever your username is in my real account.

So if I open this up I'll show you what my real one looks like so here it's just github/jordanhudgens so just my first and last name and once you're full account so done you'll see a profile like this one.

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In the meantime just create that. So pick out your username supply your live e-mail address and then pick out a password and then sign up for github.

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and this is going to take you through the type of plan that you want you typically want to start off with the unlimited public repositories for free. If you are working for an organization or you have anything proprietary then you can switch to a paid account. But for right now I'm just going to have the free option. I'm not going to like help set me up as an organization and I don't want any github news. I'm just going to continue.

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And here you can pick out some of the different answers. How would you describe your level of programming? You can just pick out whatever your experience is.

I'm not exactly sure how they use this data. It may just be for their own data collection. It's not going to affect how you are utilizing github whatsoever. So you can just pick out any of these items and then after you're done click submit and then you're ready to go.

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You have done everything that you need.

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And in the next guide, we're going to walk through how we can connect github with your local development environment.

So we're going to connect with your ssh keys and have those set up so that you can securely have access from your terminal into github because this is where you're going to be able to publish your code and have it shared with your team show it to others and then also have a safe spot where you can version all of the applications that you build.

Now one caveat before I end I just want to say do not worry about understanding everything that git and github does. Later on you're going to go through an entire course on git and how to use github and all of the different techniques that are associated with version control. So for right now we are simply setting up our systems so that they can work in the future.