What Is Github?

By Daniel J. Dick

Did you ever scream your lungs out in pain after mangling your work?

  • Did you overwrite your old version of your file or program?
  • Did you ever feel desperate to get back an old working version but could not?

You’re not alone.

Version Control to the Rescue!

What’s version control? It’s a great way of backing up your changes to a file or several files. And GIT is perhaps the most popular version control systems today.

If you’re a software developer, you should study it, practice it, and get really good with using it as its benefits are tremendous:

  • It can help programming teams coordinate their efforts.
  • It makes deployment into Test and Production safer.
  • It allows you to create multiple forks of the same program serving different needs.
  • It helps you see what changes you and others on your team have made.
  • I don’t even know all the benefits. But the videos below can help explain it.

Other People’s Videos

These are my favorite two videos for understanding GIT and GITHUB. The first one is by “Programming with Mosh”. Please support these folks by going directly to their YouTube page to view their videos.

You can do that by clicking on “Watch on YouTube” at the bottom left of each video.

A company named edureka! has produced a video on YouTube which I have included an internal link to.

Closing Comments

As time goes on, I hope to fill in this website with more of my own original work, but it takes time to build that up. Until then and afterward, I encourage you to learn as much as you can from many people as possible and give them your support. This is not a competition. They have put a great amount of work into their videos for the good of the public and deserve all of our support!

Since there is already excellent material out there, I am happy to help you and the producers of this material by helping people find the best material I can find already in existence. I hope you will enjoy it and benefit from it.

If you like these, please be sure to visit the YouTube page and “like” and “Subscribe” so you can see other excellent materials the authors may have to offer. Give them your support!