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I used to teach a coding bootcamp. I had over 100 students over about 2 years, and ran into this constantly despite my best effort to explain that git != github
by itslennysfault 4y ago
I used to teach a coding bootcamp. I had over 100 students over about 2 years, and ran into this constantly despite my best effort to explain that git != github from day one. We even did an exercise where we just used git locally first and then later (on a different day) showed how you can push to github. It didn't seem to matter. People just decided that git = github and couldn't let go of that.
- spencerchubb 4y agogit --> github porn --> pornhub best explanation of github for noobs
- GTP 4y agoLol
- sigg3 4y agobat --> bathub
- tcmart14 4y agoWow, I didn't know that, that thing is supposed to be a hub for bats.... Learn something new every day!
- dijit 4y agoThat's actually an excellent way of explaining it. Though it's frustrating that it's pornhub specifically, because referencing pornography can be awkward or impractical in workplace contexts.
- beardedetim 4y agoGrubHub?
- mgkimsal 4y agoStubHub?
- bell-cot 4y agoA safer-for-work version might use: fried chicken --> KFC
- lynndotpy 4y agoI use video --> youtube "Porn" is a genre of video and YouTube is better known than pornhub.
- EForEndeavour 4y agoBut the whole point of the "porn --> Pornhub" half-joke analogy is that it shares the word "hub" with Github!
- duxup 4y agoWith students you ran into this? I'm surprised that at a coding bootcamp students would already have some idea of git ... at all.
- itslennysfault 4y agoMost didn't. That's my point exactly. Even though I introduced them to git, and then later github, AND I was aware of the problem and tried to ensure they wouldn't conflate the two. It still happened.
- zelphirkalt 4y agoShould explain with another git hoster than github first, let them get used to something else. Then, when they meet github, they will know, that they used something different before (hopefully, otherwise they are hopeless cases).