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🟢 START HERE (Beginner Friendly)

If you’re new to Git — start here.

🎯 Your Goal

After this section, you will:

  • Understand what Git is
  • Make your first commit
  • Push code to GitHub

📌 Step 1: Install Git

Download Git:

👉 https://git-scm.com/downloads

Verify installation:

git --version

📌 Step 2: Setup Git

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "your@email.com"

📌 Step 3: Create Your First Project

mkdir my-first-repo
cd my-first-repo
git init

📌 Step 4: Add a File

echo "Hello Git" > file.txt
git add file.txt
git commit -m "First commit"

📌 Step 5: Connect to GitHub

  • Create a repo on GitHub
  • Copy URL
git remote add origin <repo-url>
git push -u origin main

🧠 What Just Happened?

  • You created a Git repository
  • You added a file
  • You saved a snapshot (commit)
  • You uploaded it to GitHub

➡️ Next Step

👉 Go to: 00-Mental-Models/README.md