How do I determine what to put on github?

Do you really care what random people think about your code online?

Do you really expect you're even remotely important so people would look at your code?

just put that shit online, even for just backup, or whatever if you want to look it up later

>>58041317
yeah one university prof suggested they check your github whenever you apply for their phd program and told me personally not to post shit code on it. also told me to not post simple code on it cause it'd make me look stupid if they found a trivial mistake. due to that i havent posted shit on github

>>58041296
Beginner here, I have a smallscripts and smallprojects repos on my github

Recruiting companies crawl GitHub and archive EVERYTHING forever.
If you ever put shit on it, they will know 20 years down the road.

>>58041317
Not OP but I'm not important and people look at my code, even contribute to it.

>>58041296
Bitbucket has private repos for free

>>58041296
naked pics (not yours you ugly)

>>58042077
Gitlab has a nicer UI and also free private repos.

>>58041363
If you're at uni there's some github student thing that gives you free private repos. Just use those for basic projects.

>>58041296
She is one strange looking bird.

>>58045797
Agreed

>>58041363
People who are overly worried about looking stupid tend to make the worst mistakes and don't have the humility to stop themselves before everything is FUBAR. Applies to everything.

With regard to this thread, why post worthless stuff on Github? If you need to do it just to practice, obviously you don't do it under your own name because it's like posting exercises in any field of knowledge on the interwebs with your name on it. While it's not wrong or cancerous per se, it is pointless and could create confusion when people look up your whatever. Reactions would vary from "Why on earth did this guy post his algebra 101 homework on the internet" to "what's the point" to "I don't understand what this is, some kind of mathematical thing, why is it here" to "wow, our son is a mathemacial ingeenus".

First things first, don't use github as a place to just backup or put on display source code you've already written. If you're actually using git while solving your assignments, you can safely put those repos up on github. If you aren't using git for that sort of stuff yet, start doing so.

>toy problems solving some mathematical problem
Probably shouldn't be up on github.

>I do coursera classes online for fun
Not familiar with what those courses are like. If it's just code-monkeying, copying the code from a tutorial, definitely don't put it up. Otherwise, if they're all fairly small or simple problems, you could create a single coursera-solutions repo, or something like that, where the different solutions are nicely organized in separate folders, with a README giving some description/linking to the courses.

>>58041296

Don't put anything not original on shithub

nobody cares

>>58048644
Because a PhD professor will check my github and judge it apart of my application if I have anything.