sciware

Intro to Github

Create a Github account if you don’t already have one.
If you are running Windows, install WSL
Make sure you have a working terminal on your laptop launch a terminal (such as Terminal.app on OS X or WSL/Ubuntu on Windows) and ensure that you see something similar when running echo $SHELL in the terminal.
```
> echo $SHELL
/usr/bin/bash
```
you also might see /usr/bin/zsh or /bin/bash or /bin/zsh, depending on your environment. If you instead see $SHELL, you are probably running a Windows command prompt and not in WSL.
Make sure you have git installed. In your terminal:
```
> git --version
git version 1.8.3
```
if you have a higher version, that is perfectly fine.
Make sure you have ssh-keygen:
```
> which ssh-keygen
/usr/bin/ssh-keygen
```
or something similar should be returned.
If you have trouble with any of the above steps, please don’t hesitate to contact us in either the #sciware slack channel or via email at sciware@flatironinstitute.org