Create an account and make your first code repository on GitHub

Create an account on GitHub by choosing a suitable username: neutral, different from your usual personal logins, short, without capital letters, etc.

Here is the example of my account: https://github.com/atterebf. But of course you can choose a different type of name. Just note that this name will remain, so it’s best to think twice about it.

Create a first public code repository in your account, e.g. https://github.com/atterebf/student_repository

IMPORTANT (read carefully):

• choose a simple, meaningful, and clear name for your repository that relates to your topic (just a few words)
• do not use spaces or accents in repository names, only underscores: ‘student_repository’ or dashes: ‘student-repository’
• before creating the repository, check: “Add a README file”
• choose a license at random
• create the repository
• then go to the repository https://github.com/atterebf/student_repository, copy all the text of the cc-by-sa-4.0 license, return to the new repository, put the license file in edit mode, and replace all the text of the previously chosen license with the CC 4 license. The license title will automatically change to: cc-by-sa-4.0
• You can create as many public code repositories as you want. And a certain number of private ones
• GitHub repositories are thought to store software, not large files. There are limits (see documentation). If you do not take them into account, you could encounter severe issues.
• See additional instructions on this page.