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Explain how to create a GitHub gist

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Explain how to create a GitHub gist

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- [Instructor] Well, first of all, what is a gist and why do we pronounce it gist rather than gist? It reminds me of GIF versus JIF for images, but no, it's actually easier than that. A gist is an idea. Tell me the gist of what's on your mind. That's the idea. A gist in GitHub is a simple way to share things like code snippets, notes, even entire files through GitHub. Reminds me in some ways, gist service does, of like pastebin if you're familiar with pastebin.com. Gists are an excellent way to quickly share code with say your teammates, regardless of where they are in the world due to the universality of the GitHub Cloud API. You need to know how to create a gist for your GitHub Foundation Certification of course. The DNS name you'll want to remember is pretty easy, fortunately, gist.github.com. And then in any number of ways using the portal UI, the web UI, we can do a new gist. You should definitely note that gists are plain old Markdown format files. So we're using GitHub-flavored…

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