These notes transcribed from the Codecademy 'Learn Git' course. They are for personal use to reinforce my own learning and are on Github purely for backup purposes. I do not claim ownership of any content at all provided by codecademy.
Git is a version control system used to track changes to source code and provide access to it to others, encouraging open contributions, bug reporting and testing.
Github is a website which hosts Git repositories which others can access to contribute to the project with bug reports, code contributions and testing.