First of all you will need git, you can download it here git The following are some resources that will help you understand some of the git commands that you may use quite often

• git docs
• git cheat sheet
• Interactive git cheat sheet <- I used this one a lot to learn all of my git foo!
• list of videos by github
• Top 10 Git Tutorials for Beginners

what is github?

GitHub is a web-based Git repository hosting service, which offers all of the distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git as well as adding its own features.

Github also developed a nice little GUI tool for all us non command line folk. Download the version you need from one of these links

• Github GUI mac
• Github GUI windows
• Other GUI tools * If you are not running mac or windows os, sorry but github hates you. You can still download one of these other tools

Some nice fella over on the youtubes made this great little video about how to set up and use the Github GUI tool

So github, being the awesome place they are, developed a nifty text editor for all to use. Download it here Atom

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