Tools

Before getting started with GitHub repositories and writing your documentation, you need to install some tools.

GitHub Desktop is an open-source application that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for interacting with GitHub. You will use this to pull (download) and push (upload) content from your local system to a GitHub repository.

Visual Studio Code is an integrated development environment (IDE) created by Microsoft. This allows you to create and modify files for creating content on your GitHub Pages website. Some file format you will work with are: markdown, YAML, and cascading style sheets (CSS).