Getting ready for this course

GitHub account

In this course, we use the public GitHub service and you need an account at https://github.com and a supported web browser. Basic GitHub accounts are free.

If you are concerned about the personal information to reveal to GitHub, for example how to keep your email address private, please review these instructions for keeping your email address private provided at GitHub.

We are trying to make it possible to follow this course also with other Git hosting services but this is work in progress.

Create a GitHub account

  1. Go to https://github.com.

  2. Click on the “Sign up” at the right-top corner.

  3. Enter your username of your choice (if it is already used, you will get some suggestions), email address, and password.

  4. Follow further instruction and verify your account.

GitHub may require you to enable multi-factor authentication (MFA). This is generally a good thing, but may take some time to set up. Luckily, you probably don’t have to do this immediately. If you are prompted to enable MFA before the end of CodeRefinery, follow GitHub’s instructions since they are usually pretty good.

How to verify that this worked

If you can log in to https://github.com, you should be good to go.