I normally consider myself pretty handy with computers, but I’m no programmer. I know GitHub is primarily for programmers, but I often find GitHub pages when looking for specific programs, and always end up walking away frustrated because anything I try to download just gives me a whole bunch of unfamiliar file-names and what I’m guessing is some uncompiled data? I really don’t know, and it just confuses me what I’m supposed to do in order to actually execute files I find on GitHub? I’ve heard something about Python and something about Cmd (Is that Windows Command Line Prompt?) and whenever I look up tutorials or guides for GitHub I find primer videos for programmers, not user friendly newbie guides for people who just want to download a piece of software.
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Github has toy parts. So that other people can build better toys by using their own effort & creativity along with ready-made toy parts.
If you don’t like a toy part, you can make modifications by requesting the original builder. Or you can clone it in your workshop to work on it.
Github also uses git. This tracks the versions by which toy parts are made (from raw materials to toy parts). If a good part is messed up by adding a modification, you can easily revert back to the previous version of the toy part.
Also, github has options for hosting read-me manuals for toy parts, q/a and links to demos of toy parts being used.
In other words, GitHub is the embodiment of the phrase, “Standing on the Shoulder of Giants” as generous open-source developers provide a shoulder to stand on and other developers try to do the standing by building upon or improving that shoulder!
Here, toy/shoulder = software
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