Since GitHub is likely to be in the mainstream tech news a bit more in the next few days, I figured it might be good to gather some simple explanations of what the service is in case your friends or family ask you about this.
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Go find out what git is. Found it out? GitHub is just an instance of git that you can push and pull from.
This really isn't helpful at all is it?
You have some magical unicorns in your computer that are actually called "code". But perhaps you want every one to see it and have some fun (and work) with the unicorns, so you put them up on GitHub for everyone to see. Or you don't want to lose your unicorns and keep them a secret, so you put them on GitHub but only those that you grant access to can see the unicorns.
I just realized there's already a post like this
Explain Git + GitHub Like I'm Five
Deja
Say you are writing a short story and you want to do a really good job. You might write the story on one sheet of paper, and then get another sheet of paper and write another version, and then keep writing more versions on more sheets of paper. After a while, you'd end up with lots of sheets of paper that weren't the version you were currently writing. You might put those sheets in a folder so that you can go back and see old drafts of your story.
You give that folder to your mom to keep track of, because you know that you can always ask mom for one of the versions of your story if you need it. Plus, mom keeps photocopies so she can give versions of your story to your siblings. Mom also keeps similar folders for the stories that your siblings write.
Git is the folder, and your pieces of paper are code. Your mom is GitHub.
But I think it's still useful to have another discussion, possibly more geared towards complete out-of-the-loopers.
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The last phrase "Your mom is GitHub" could make a good "your momma" joke though 😁
GitHub is like Instagram but for code, if Instagram let other people copy your pictures and apply their own filters which you could then apply back to your original version of the picture.
Ooooh when I first was learning about github/git an awesome analogy was taught to me - so I can't take credit for it (unfortunately)!
Git is like saving multiple drafts of written papers.
Github is a social media hub for those multiple drafts of papers that other people can view, work on, and collaborate on!
You're playing a story-based video game.
Every time you find a save point,you save your game so you can go back to it later if you missed something on the level or if your character goes bye-bye.
If you do it right, you'll have save files for every important scene right before you fight the big bad guy or at the beginning or middle of the level, so if they beat you up or if you missed something, you can go back and try again.
TL;DR:
Also there's a multiplayer option that allows your friends to play the same game, and save their progress to your game if they made good progress.
I think PS4 games have this option! ...at least Persona 5 does. You can save a game on ~The Cloud~ and load it from a friend's PS4-- if you trust them enough with your account password lol.
"Github is going to be the Facebook for code"
Lord help us all..... lol
it's another thing acquired by Microsoft xD
Beat me to it lol!
GitHub is like a cupboard that stores “Lego” pieces where this “Lego” is used to make things like computer games.