Quote:people more knowledgable might be willing and able to help bring the application up to a higher standard so that we might at one point be able to publish it on Github and see where it leads...
I started with github by just wanting to post my code for public. I didnt care about all the fancy stuff like branches, merging, etc. I didnt do anything for a long time other than just uploading code to github. (
git init, git add ., git commit -m "my update comment", git push origin master)...and thats all i knew for awhile. Github isnt meant to publish your final code and be done with it. It is meant to publish your rough draft and morph into your final code (Which is really never). This can be with or without the help of other people. But that is the benefit of it, you can have other people join in (in both a lot of effort, or just changing a line or two). And this goes on throughout coding. I now purposely start from scratch on github, as it keeps a record of my updates. I want to get my code on github ASAP.
You will very rarely (if ever) see any one post on your code as there are so many on github. To have someone look at it, you would have to post the link to your repo at a place like this. Even then, most people wont bother. But the alternative is no one if you dont have a repo.
No one really bashes people for their code. At least not here. All programmers start at the beginning "hello world" program and work their way up. Everyone more knowledgeable than you have already been in your shoes and knows the situation, the hurdles they had to overcome. They didnt get bashed for it, and they wont bash you for it either.
Years after uploading a project, every so often ill have someone come along and post a pull request (a potential change) for a single line change or so on my code. Most often i allow it as they are legit and something i overlooked, or did not know. Ive also got a lot of requests from github, where people asked for a feature, and gave me ideas on things to add to my programs.
I made a tutorial to upload code to github using git. This is solely on the terminal, so if your on a mac, it should be similar. This was meant for people who have numerous files or resources that post their code on this forum, to show them how to upload their code instead to github. At this point you can at least have a project up to show others, and then you can extend your knowledge on git with things like merging, branches, and pull requests, etc.
There is also a real nice interactive tutorial that gives you the basics
Recommended Tutorials: