Can someone help me set up github/clone etc?

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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I am a huge newbie and my subscription is expiring in 5 days, I really want to give learning C++ a try and have the source code if I need it in the future. I wanted to set up github since it seems easiest way to work with the source code.

I have visualstudio, github etc all installed. However I think I missed a step in the authenticating github, didn’t understand a word of it. Also my client looks different to the video uploaded by epic games on how to install it so I got stuck, I cannot for the life of me find the clone function and I have no idea what to do with my extracted files as 90% of them are identical to the ones I have under programfiles -> Unreal Engine -> 4.4

I have skype, if someone can help me set it up I would be so grateful.

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huh? how does that help?

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Bump, can someone please help me?

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You dont need the github client to download the source. You can just download the source as a zip. I guess you have done some stepps, but I wrote down everything from scratch.

Sign Up at Github.

Go to https://www.unrealengine.com/settings
Under Accounts “UPDATE GITHUB ACCOUNT:” type in your Github user name, if you haven’t done already.
Login at github.

Go to https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine (you have to be logged in)

Use branch 4.4 (or the branch you want to work with)

On the right side you see “Download Zip”, hit it and a download will start.

Scroll a bit down and also download “Required_1of2.zip and Required_2of2.zip.”

Now extract the first Zip and extract the other two into the created folder.

Now you can run “GenerateProjectFiles.bat”, open the UE4.sln and compile the Editor.

Some more links:

https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usjlNHPn-jo&feature=youtu.be

Big Edit:
Haven’t seen that you have already the source code. Sorry for that…