8.1: Intro to GitHub
At the end of this lesson, you should:
- Be familiar with GitHub
- Understand briefly how GitHub extends the capabilities of Git
GitHub is a web application that hosts Git repositories on the internet. It is a centralised set of repositories developers use to hold "official" copies of their code.
In Fundamentals we'll be using GitHub as a place to download starter code, and, when we cover 8.2 (GitHub Fork and Clone) we'll use it to submit projects and store our code and code versions online.

A Git "remote" is a shared copy of a code repository, typically hosted on a platform like GitHub