Intro to Github & Github Pages

Free Code Storage and Web Hosting for Static Web Sites

GitHub (github.com) offers free code storage and Internet hosting service. It is a popular tool used for code collaboration and sharing, but it also offers free hosting for static sites via Github Pages (pages.github.com).

Fun fact

Git was created in 2005 by Linus Torvalds (the same person that created Linux. He described it as a “stupid content tracker.” The word git is a reference to the British slang term for “a stupid person”. Source: Wikipedia

GitHub Pages

Github pages https://pages.github.com

In this course, we are going to use Github to store our code (and as a “cloud” backup service), and we are going to use Github Pages as our web server (free web host).