My First GitHub Project: From a Local Folder to GitHub Using Git and SSH

I thought that when i join Lux Dev i would jump straight into building complex data pipelines and getting to understand kafka, kafka sounds like a really cool name, but if there's one thing I'm realizing quickly, it's that before you can orchestrate complex data pipelines or deploy web scrapers, you have to master the absolute basics of version control. This week, I was working on setting up a new local project, a health records analysis and pushing it to GitHub entirely through the command line. If you're just starting out with version control, here is exactly how I took a project from a completely blank folder on my desktop to a live repository on GitHub, including testing SSH keys. Setting Up the Local Project First, I needed a place for my project to live. I opened my bash terminal, navigated to my Desktop using he cd command, and created the main project folder along with a sub-folder for the data named Data. cd Desktop mkdir -p Kenya_Hospital_Health_Records_Project/Data cd Kenya_Hospital_Health_Records_Project With the directories created, I copied and pasted my Kenya_Hospital_Health_Records_Project.csv data set we were given in class into the Data folder. Writing the README via Terminal Instead of opening a text editor, I decided to build out my README.md right from the command line using echo command. The > operator adds new text the file, while >> adds text to the already creaed line. echo "# KENYA HEALTH RECORDS ANALYSIS" > README.md echo "## Project Overview" >> README.md echo "This project analyses health records of a hospital" >> README.md I also added a quick list of tools and challenges using the same method and used the cat README.md command to print the contents of the file directly in the terminal to confirm that everything looked right. Initializing and Staging Now it was time to turned this folder into a tracked Git repository. git init Running git status showed that my Data/ folder and README.md were untracked. To stage them for my first commit,