What is GitHub? How to start using the code hosting platform that allows you to easily manage and collaborate on programming projects

GitHub is the standard hosting platform for coders.
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GitHub is a code hosting platform that allows for managing, maintaining, and collaborating on open-source programming projects.
To use GitHub, you first need to install a "Git" program, which is software that tracks changes in files.
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