From the course: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: Building the Web

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Setting up your development environment

Setting up your development environment

- [Instructor] Hello and welcome to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript building the web. My name is Nitya Narasimhan and I'm super excited to be walking you through your beginner level introduction to building projects with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. To do this, I want you to start first by going to the repo and forking it. And that's exactly what I'm going to do. Notice that I'm already logged in to GitHub, so you will need a GitHub account. And if you are coming to this course for the first time, just go ahead, log in, visit this URL, click the fork button, and when you do, it'll ask you where you want to fork that, put it into your repo. You can keep the same name or change it to something else. I'm just going to keep it as it is. Click the Create fork button, and you should have a fork of the repo in your own profile. Now, why is this important? This is important because you're learning, and that means that you want to be able to change stuff, and mess around with it, and experiment with…

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