A short, plain-English guide to GitHub for people who aren't programmers.
Written for a friend who kept landing on GitHub pages and quietly backing away.
Read it here: https://iteachc.github.io/github-without-panic/
Covers:
- what GitHub actually is, and why it feels wrong when you arrive
- how to read a repo page (the four things that matter)
- Releases, and why that one word solves most of it
- which file to download, and which to ignore
- worked examples: a gist, and a repo with no Releases
- what to do when there's no Releases section
- safety, before you run anything from the internet
Single HTML file, no dependencies, works offline. Copy it, change it, send it on.
MIT licensed.