Create a GitHub Account
As you saw in the previous chapter, GitHub is an online service that hosts your remote repositories.
To create your GitHub account, go to the homepage and click on Sign up.
You’ll be asked to enter an email address, a password, and a username.
You’ll receive a code by email to confirm your identity.
It’s as simple as that—you’re now signed up to GitHub! GitHub is free by default, but there are also paid options if you decide you want to move up a level.
Over to you to create your GitHub account! And if you still need help, here is a video that takes you through each step of the process:
Have a Look Around GitHub
GitHub is fairly simple to learn and easy to use. 
Your Dashboard
In your personal dashboard, you can:
Keep track of issues and pull requests you’re working on or monitoring.
Access your main repositories and team pages.
Keep up to date with the recent activity of organizations and repositories you follow.
The Repository Interface
The Repository interface is where you can create and find your existing repositories.
To create a project, just click on “Start a project.”
Your Profile
In your profile, you can edit your information and see all your contributions to different projects.
Contributions refer to any action you’ve carried out in any repository, whether it be your own, someone else’s, or a public repository.
The Pull Requests Tab
The Pull Requests tab allows you to make requests for changes to be made to the code.
So how does that work?
Pull requests allow you to inform other users of changes you’ve made to a branch in a GitHub repository that you want to merge with the main code.
The Explore Feature
The last important point to cover in GitHub is the Explore feature.
Create Your Own Repository
To put your project on GitHub, you need to create a repository for it.
Click on the “+” in the top right-hand corner and select the option “New repository.”
Choose a simple name for your repository. In this course, you’ll use “OpenclassroomsProject.”
Then choose whether you want it to be a public or private repository.
Let’s Recap!
To launch a project, you need to create a GitHub account.
You can easily keep track of your different projects thanks to the dashboard.
To put your project on GitHub, you need to create a repository.
Congratulations! You’ve created your first GitHub repository! The next step is to install Git on your computer.
