There are no files required for this lesson. You will create all the files needed.
git is free and open-source software, available for all major operating systems.
If you are working on a Linux or MacOS machine, please see here for git installation instructions.
For Windows machines, we highly recommend that you install the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). WSL installation instructions are available here.
GitHub does not require you to download any additional software; however, you will need to make a GitHub account. Please see here to create your account.
Although we will not cover them in this lesson, there are GitHub desktop clients that you can download to provide a graphical user interface (GUI) for interacting with git and GitHub.
If you would like to use a desktop client, we recommend: