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Newbie Guide To Working On Someone's GitHub

The first thing you should do as a newbie to GitHub is install GitHub Desktop https://desktop.github.com/

1.1 Method 1: Cloning a Project from Browser

Sign in to your account at github.com and open the project owner's GitHub project in the browser. For example. https://github.com/thiendao97/HelloWorld would be one. Then clone to your  preferred location this can be any where you want. Think of it as downloading a whole folder.

1.2 Method 2: Cloning a Project from GitHub Desktop

Open GitHub Desktop. File -> Clone Repository. Paste in the project owner's project URL. Then clone to your preferred location. The default is in your Documents\GitHub.

2.1 Easily locate directory with Repository -> Show in Explorer