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- [Instructor] If your problem is related to a specific code base and that code base has a public repository, that's a great place to search for answers. For version controlled code using Git, GitHub is probably the most widely used host, so that's the one I wanna highlight in this lesson. While you don't have to have an account to browse GitHub, as a web developer, especially if you work with opensource code like WordPress and Drupal, I highly recommend you get a free account. It's a great place to share your work, and it can even serve as a sort of resume for the code you write. If you're looking for work in web development, there is a good chance that a potential employer will search for you on GitHub. Anyhow, I'm logged into my own account here. So the way GitHub works is that individuals or companies have user accounts and each of those accounts can create repositories. A code repository can be public or private. If I click on my account and view my repositories, we can see a…

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