Now I do not want you to confuse Git with GitHub I'm going to create an entire guide specifically discussing the differences between the two. But for right now just know that GitHub is a location where you can store your git repositories.

You're going to start off by coming to github.com if you do not already have an account and then pick out a username. So here I'm gonna say devcampgithub and it looks like that one is available. We can see right there with the little green checkmark that it is and then provide whatever email address that you have and then create a password and after you've done that you can click sign up for GitHub

and then it's going to ask you for a plan and depending on when you're going through this course the screen may look slightly different than all the screens may look slightly different but the same kind of workflow is going to be the same and if it's not then please let me know and I will update it.

The very first thing we're gonna do is create a plan and the basic one is unlimited public repositories. And what that means is that all of our projects are going to be freely available to the open source community. And if you're going through this and you're going through a coding boot camp or you're just working on hobby projects that is perfectly fine.

You have to make sure that you're careful with protecting your different configuration variables, API credentials, and those kinds of things because they are available to the public and we're going to go into how we can do that later on in the course. If you're working on client projects or doing this for your job then you most likely want to also have private code repositories and in order to do that, you could select this and then pay the seven dollars a month.

For right now I'm just going to click on unlimited public repositories and you can have it help you go through a tutorial and also sign up for updates. I'm not going to check either one of those boxes I'll hit continue.

And this is going to take me to a third spot where it tries to tailor my experience you can pick out each one of these as they apply to you.

And it really doesn't matter at the end of the day I'm going to be walking you through each one of these things so click on that hit submit and that is it you are signed up for a GitHub account.

And in the next guide, we're going to walk through the key differences between git and GitHub.