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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In terms of downloading it, you can clone it using git. Git is a source code manager that allows multiple people to collaborate without clashing. You can install a git client which is a program used to load git (i use gitkraken), and use that to clone the repo. You can also download a zip file of the repo but that won’t receive updates if someone changes the repo.
In terms of running the program, it depends on what the program is. If its an android app, you’ll need to load it into the IDE and compile it. Python can be ran straight away if you have all the dependencies, and c style projects need the compiler toolchain.
If you have a specific repo in mind we can help you further 🙂
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