GitHub offers unlimited free public repositories, so we can make use of it without investing a penny. In GitHub, you have to pay only if you need private repositories; for example, to store closed source code you base your business on.

Creating a new account is simple:

1. Go to https://github.com.
2. Sign up, filling the textboxes, as per the following image, and provide a username, a password, and your email:

When done, we are ready to create a brand new repository in which to push our work:

Go to the Repositories tab, click the green New button, and choose a name for your repository, as you can see in the following screenshot:

For the purpose of learning, I will create a simple repository for my personal recipes, written using the markdown markup language (http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/):

Then, you can write a description for your repository; this is useful for allowing people that come to visit your profile to better understand what your project is intended for. We create our repository as public because private repositories have a cost, as we said before, and then we initialize it with a README file; choosing this, GitHub makes a first commit for us, initializing the repository that now is ready to be cloned.