i made a similar list when teaching others programming as well as for a friend so we could do some collaborative literary writing, i think offsite storage, or

i made a similar list when teaching others programming as well as for a friend so we could do some collaborative literary writing, i think offsite storage, or publishing, is also of tier one importance and can be distilled to simple instructions: (0) create an account with bitbucket for free private, or github for free public .. of course you will have to show 'git config --global user.name NAME' and 'git config --global user.email eMAIL@SITE.com', but this step is a one off and can easily be ignored after initial setup which you can be present for (i) 'git remote add origin LOCATION', and 'git remote -v' if you forget where the repo is being sent (ii) 'git push origin master', after ever session (iii) 'git pull origin master', before ever session