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First thing we'll do
is head to GitHub.com.
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If you already have an account,
you can sign in.
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If you don't, though, it's easy and
free to create a new account.
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I'll set one up for this course.
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I'll pick a username.
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Many people pick their username to match
their other social media profiles on
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Twitter, Instagram, for example.
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And I'll also provide my email address and
enter a password.
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And click the big green button to sign in.
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GitHub is free to use for
public projects, and
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you can host projects privately
with a paid monthly subscription.
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We'll sign up for
the free plan for this course.
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Great, now that we've signed up
let's check out our profile.
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It's empty now but not for long.
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First we'll edit our profile and
add some information about ourselves.
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Later we'll follow some fellow GitHub
users, star interesting repositories, and
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add our own repository.
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Soon enough we'll have a couple green
contribution squares on our contribution
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graph that show our activity.
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The more active you are the darker
your squares become.
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Click Edit Profile and
we'll fill in our profile information.
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You can also get here by
clicking on Settings.
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You can upload a profile picture, add your
name, email address, URL for your blog or
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website, company name, location,and also
you can click this box available for hire.
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And this will be reflected
on your profile page.
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I'm gonna fill in my profile and
I'll be right back.
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[NOISE] Great,
now I've got my profile set up.
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On the left side you can see there
are a bunch of tabs for personal settings.
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Two important ones are the notification
center and the security tab.
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In the notification center,
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you can choose to receive
notifications via email or the web.
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And you can also set up custom routing.
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For example, you can have notifications
about your personal projects sent to
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one email address and for
your work projects sent to another email.
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Also, in the Security tab, you can
set up two factor authentication for
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an extra layer of security.
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Before we can create
any content on GitHub,
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however, we'll need to
verify our email address.
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