3  GitHub account creation

Note: If you already have a personal GitHub account you can use it, you can link it with your Estia address to get the benefits of being a student

  1. Go to github.com and create an account using your estia email address
  2. You can select student and add your estia id card to get the benefits or skip this step and register later on github education [

This email address will be used to sign your commits, if you use it on public repository it will be visible. Github offers you the possibility to have a private email associated with your commits (you can’t use it to receive mails.)

Get a private email address

  1. In the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Settings.
  2. In the “Access” section of the sidebar, click Emails.
  3. To keep your email address private when performing web-based Git operations, click Keep my email addresses private.Image of checkbox to keep your email address private
  4. Copy the email address (number-name@users.noreply.github.com) when you need to configure your git client.