Your Students Should be Using GitHub

An Introduction to GitHub and its Benefits

In this digital era, having a professional online presence is vital. Applicant research by hiring managers is standard; providing proof to a resume’s claims online is highly recommended. Having an online portfolio is doubly important for industries closely tied with the internet (namely, coding!).

If you want your students to succeed as developers, it’s imperative that they build industry-recognized portfolios. To build impressive project showcases, your students should be using GitHub. Here’s why:

What is GitHub?

What is Git?

Git is a type of source control software. Source Control is a development practice in which coders track and manage their changes to their software projects.

With Git, developers can see every change they and their team members have made to software projects. That means that if a software project ever has a severe bug, developers can use Git to rewind to an older iteration of their project.

Git makes it so that users can work in parallel on the same project without worrying about losing work or overwriting another’s code. Users can easily synchronize all changes. With Git, projects have a single source of truth in…