Collaborative Coding with the Best Geeks in the World! VSCODE and Github Link

The dream of many of my students is to become part of a community of ethically correct hackers and use their skills for global developments and collaborations. Create video games with major development companies working cooperatively.

The dream of many of my students is to become part of a community of ethically correct hackers (perhaps a bit unscrupulous ...) and use their skills for global developments and collaborations. Create video games with major development companies working cooperatively. Create and learn best practices from the best developers in the world. Demonstrate the ability to code at good levels to enrich their curriculum with a view to a general improvement of their life.

Having high-quality open-source code and being able to participate in global projects.

All this is possible today with a few steps. Start acquiring familiarity with the necessary tools is absolutely the first step you must take.

The following is a practical guide to start working with VsStudio code and Github.

Start by installing Visual studio Code from this link.

https://code.visualstudio.com/

You will get an editor tool that we use in lessons.

Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a code editor to develop, run and debug code.

The next step is to understand what GITHUB is and create an account for Github

Git is the tool that lets you create a local repository (on your PC) and manage versions of your files.

Github is an online service that will host your Git repositories (in the cloud).

WARNING there is a difference between Git and GitHub

CREATE an account on GitHUB .... here is the link

https://github.com/

You need to install GIT on your computer now .... here's how to do it:

https://git-scm.com/downloads/

To check if git is correctly installed you need to enter this command in the terminal (ask if you don't know how to do it)

$ git --version
git version 2.20.1.windows.1

If you have come this far .... you can proceed otherwise go back .... do not proceed if you have not done the steps described above.

Enable Git in VS Code

To enable Git in VS Code on Windows:

To enable Git in VS Code on Mac:

Configure your Github login in vscode

Now you need to execute your commit email address in Git.

To configure your Git Login, we will need to set your username and email address in Git.

Open the terminal

Your github username in git you create as follows by writing in the vscode terminal.

git config --global user.name "yourusername"

Set an email address in Git.

git config --global user.email "email@youremail.com"

Add the email address to your GitHub account.

If you use two-factor authentication (2FA) in your organization, you will need to generate an access token. You can also read the official documentation to help you.

You will definitely have other questions about how to use git ... Share your results and questions in the comments that I will moderate. I will try to produce a guide on git to use it easily for every good intelligent student. Good work and good study.