2. Using Git and Github#
Warning
This is a difficult section to understand. Especially because this section is at the very beginning of the book. You can skip it, but I would highly recommend trying to understand the basics of git/Github and use it to store tasks.
There are a lot of tasks in book and you have to store them somewhere. One option is to use Git and Github to do this. Of course, there are other ways to do this but Github can be used for other things in future. Tasks and examples from book are in a separate repository on Github. They can be downloaded as a zip archive but it is better to work with repository using Git, then you can see changes made and easily update repository. If this is the first time working with Git and especially if this is the first version control system you work with, there are a lot of information, so this chapter focuses on practical side of question and it says:
How to start using Git and Github
How to perform basic setup
How to view information and/or changes
There will be no much theory in this subsection but references to useful resources are listed. Try doing all basic settings for tasks and then continue reading the book. And at the end, when basic work with Git and Github is already routine, read more about them. What could Git be useful for:
to store configurations and all configuration changes
to store documentation and all its versions
to store schemes and all its versions
to store code and its versions
Github allows you to centrally store all above items, but it should be taken into account that these resources will be available to others as well. Github also has private repositories, but even these probably should not contain information such as passwords. Of course, main use of Github is to place code of various projects. In addition, Github can be also used to:
host for your website (GitHub Pages)
Hosting for online presentations and a tool to create them (GitPitch)
together with GitBook, it is also a platform for publishing books, documentation, etc