Hello World 👋

The first repository every developer creates when learning GitHub — and the canonical example used throughout GitHub's own documentation.

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📖 About

Hello-World is a minimal starter repository. It exists to demonstrate the core building blocks of working on GitHub: creating a repository, editing files, committing changes, opening branches, and collaborating through pull requests.

If you are reading this while following a GitHub tutorial, you are in the right place — this project is intentionally tiny so you can focus on the workflow rather than the code.

✨ What you'll learn

• How a repository is structured
• How to make and commit a change
• How to create a branch
• How to open and review a pull request
• How Markdown renders a README

🚀 Getting started

Clone the repository to your machine:

git clone https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World.git
cd Hello-World

Print the classic greeting:

cat README.md | head -n 1
# => # Hello World 👋

🌱 Make your first contribution

1. Fork this repository (top-right of the page).
2. Create a branch for your change:

   git checkout -b my-first-change
   

3. Commit your edit with a clear message:

   git commit -am "Describe your change"
   

4. Push the branch and open a pull request:

   git push origin my-first-change
   

5. Wait for review, iterate on feedback, and celebrate when it merges. 🎉

🤝 Contributing

Contributions of every size are welcome — even fixing a single typo is a great first pull request. Please keep changes focused and describe what changed and why in your PR description.

📄 License

This project is released under the MIT License. You are free to use, copy, modify, and distribute it.

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_{Happy coding! Every expert was once a beginner. 🐙}