How to create GitHub account for beginners?

Atharva Ikhar — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:30:23 +0000

Hello World :)

This is the first article from the series. In these article we gonna see how to create GitHub account as a beginner.

Follow the below steps to create your account:

Go to github.com.
Click on "Sign up for github" button
Enter your valid email address and password which you want to give.
Enter username of your choice
(you can change your username later)
(choosing a name which is easily remembered, short and professional looking is useful)
(in the end it's your choice to pickup your username)
Enter y or n in next field according to your choice if you want to receive promotional emails from GitHub (I prefer to choose n)
Resolve a captcha and click on create account
Next you will need to add the code received on your entered email address

After that you will be prompted to answer some question
Choose just me or 2-5 option & Student (as we are student right now, you can choose developer if you are not student)
Choose some features which you are interested in using? or looks interesting to you.
After that choose the free option
Once you see the similar screen as below then it means you have created your GitHub account successfully.
( Now whenever you want to share your github profile just add your username after github.com/ )

Hope, it was easy!
See you all in next article.

In case of any questions or query you can be reach me here : github.com/iatharva

Series on GitHub by iAtharva

Atharva Ikhar — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:41:36 +0000

Hello World!

Why this article?

To inform you all that, soon I am going to start with series of blogs which would explain Git and GitHub from basics till the level I have understood it. cause still learning :) I will be trying to make it as beginners friendly as possible.

Where to read/see all posts?

The link of the all posts in order will be added to my website under blog section (click here to visit).
Links will also be updated in this article.
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