[beginner] Setup Git and a GitHub account

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Git (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git) is a version control system used to organise code, keep track of changes made and collaborate with people.

GitHub is a web-based hosting service for version control using Git, commonly used for sharing the code with the world.

For this task, you are required to:

Create an account on Github
Create a new repository
Open a new dummy issue in the repository
Create a Python / C++ / Java based hello-world program and commit it to the repository
Create a new branch making changes to the hello-world program, and send a pull request to the master branch.
Add a sample readme to the project.
Add a LICENSE and a .gitignore file to the repository

Submission Requirements:

Describe in-detail how did you complete this task
Link to your created issue.
Link to your created repository

For example, this is a demo of completing all the tasks in this repository: https://github.com/vrautenbach/gci-helloworld

Task tags

git
github

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Task type

Code
Documentation / Training

Level

Beginner