25.5 What is GitHub?

  • GitHub is a hosting service for your projects.

Think of it as DropBox, but much, much better ~Jenny Bryan, STAT 545 TAs, & Jim Hester (Happy Git and GitHub for the useR)

  • It’s a collaboration, project management, and social media platform.

  • Provides many tools to improve/work on your project.

25.5.1 Other services like GitHub

  • Although these services are different, the fundamentals are still the same across the platforms.