How to use Git

No. GitHub is not a place for a beginner to start programming . Beginners should not worry about complex syntax or complex commands. They should simply try to understand how to code (The logic to solve a coding problem) or understands others’ code.

GitHub itself is pretty safe and secure , and you can trust it with the repositories you host on it. If you have a private repository on GitHub, I wouldn’t worry about GitHub itself being hacked and your data being leaked that way.

As reported in Wired, ReadWrite, and elsewhere, GitHub is used to manage the collaborative development of recipes, musical scores, books, fonts, legal documents, lessons and tutorials, and data sets .

GitHub is a web-based interface that uses Git, the open source version control software that lets multiple people make separate changes to web pages at the same time . As Carpenter notes, because it allows for real-time collaboration, GitHub encourages teams to work together to build and edit their site content.