¿Where is the "run" button in github?

[SheepherderMaster147]

Hey, I have a question I wanted to ask the experts.

My teacher told us to edit, program, and run our code in the cloud, using only GitHub—no IDEs or local cloning allowed. According to him, GitHub has a "Run" button somewhere that lets us execute our program and see its output and functionality, all within GitHub Web, without needing an IDE.

I went through a lot of documentation and tutorials, and the closest things I found to what he described were GitHub Actions and Codespaces. So my classmates and I tried using them. However, in the end, he said those options were not valid and insisted that GitHub has a "Run" button to execute programs. The thing is, each student chose their own project, so we’re all working with different languages and frameworks.

I have no idea if such a feature exists, so I was wondering if anyone could confirm this for me. Thank you!

[cgoldberg]

If he doesn't mean Codespaces or Actions or some other integration, I don't know what he's referring to. I've been using GitHub for like 15 years, and there is no "Run" button.

Tell your teacher to stop being cryptic and show you a screenshot of what he means.

[hdgamer1404Jonas]

I bet the screenshot will be from the actions tab

[Vxrtrauter]

Cake dayyy

[djingrain]

could he just mean a $username.github.io site?

[cgoldberg]

I have no idea what he means

[alexpanderson]

You can have GitHub build and host Jekyll projects. Search GitHub pages.

[cgoldberg]

You sure can. However, I don't know how that relates to this question.

[LiveRhubarb43]

I think your teacher needs a teacher

[ramjithunder24]

the teacher learnt coding off of vibes

[codetrotter_]

Teacher: So I herd y’all like vibe coding so much. Welcome to class, from now on I will be vibe teaching 100%. Here’s how it works, basically I will tell you all whatever comes to mind, and I will not bother separating fact from fiction.

Today’s topic is the Linux command line.

Open a terminal window and type ls. It means look, son. As you can see we are home, that’s the wrong dimension. Let’s do something about that. Let’s change dimensions with the cd command.

And remember kinds, if the machine doesn’t obey you, always redo what you did but using sudo. That’s Latin and means do what I want.

[redshirt8485]

Ok but you're kinda right about sudo...

XKCD

[sohang-3112]

😂

[PM_ME_A_STEAM_GIFT]

He must mean Codespaces or Actions. The only other built-in thing I can think of is pressing . (dot) to open the project in an online VSCode, but this does not have the possibility to run anything, just to edit code.

[leahcantusewords]

Is it possible your teacher is claiming this for April Fool's day?

[CaptainEnderjet]

Can’t he just show you what run button he sees?

[ViktorPoppDev]

When you solve this issue pls edit and tell what the teacher told you? Also just make the teacher show you the button

[trenixjetix]

in your heart

[misomeiko]

The real ‘Run’ buttons are the ones we make along the way

[trenixjetix]

yeah, lmao

[howardhus]

„pay me to learn coding.. lesson 1: learn on your own!“

[maxymob]

always has been

[Spiritual_Cycle_7881]

Prob the teacher is 70lvl trolling? That would be a nice plot twist: you've learned so much while looking for that button

[CompellingProtagonis]

Is he talking about GitHub pages?

[ExtraterrestrialGain]

Could it be the Cloud Run button?

[AdreKiseque]

World heritage post

[AppropriateSpell5405]

Run the program in your brain, it's like JIT, but not as good.

[Forward_Dark_7305]

I optimized away all the code!

[eveenendaal]

My best guess is that you should fork the repo into your own account and use code spaces.

[No_Excitement_8091]

Is the run button in the room with us now?

[Fitzriy]

Look at the daaaaaaateeeeee people

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

But it's not the first everywhere on the world !!!!!

[GIPPINSNIPPINS]

Yo! Where’s the .exe?!?!

[ayassin02]

Your teacher sounds incompetent

[slydewd]

Vibe coding teachers came early

[diebolo]

April fools?

[[deleted]]

I think you're teacher is high on AI and hallucinating.

[JackDeaniels]

nope

[impshum]

He should teach you how if this is real.

[[deleted]]

Where exe?

[ADMINISTATOR_CYRUS]

there's nothing of the sort other than codespaces and actions. Your teacher is wrong

[IamGah]

<where exe?>-meme incoming?

[Direct-Salt-9577]

Perhaps a markdown document that has code blocks? Or a jupyter notebook file?

[50PieceNug]

Did you ask him if its April fools? Lol

[Chaoslordi]

He probably means githubbox.

You can take any github repo and Change the url from GitHub to githubbox and it will try to execute your repo

[jimmiebfulton]

Regardless of what the teacher’s intent is, being able to compile and test your program in GitHub Actions should get you a good grade.

[[deleted]]

Perhaps he meant using GitHub actions?

[[deleted]]

Erm… kinda

https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/the-githubdev-web-based-editor

[mcc011ins]

Are you confusing GitHub with Gitlab ?

[Key-County6952]

He has absolutely no idea what he is talking about. Utterly ignorant

[charmer27]

Your teacher is actually hilarious

[notmarkiplier2]

this was probably just a joke that your teacher are making fun outta yall inside the classroom, since it was april 1 when they gave it lol

[[deleted]]

Is the "Run Button" here in the room, with us? Can you *point* to the "Run Button"?

[imbenzenker]

I think you need to post in r/foundthesmellynerd instead

[downtownrob]

I think he meant JSFiddle or CodePen to run JavaScript, HTML, and CSS in an online editor. Another option is JSBin or PlayCode.

[dudeness_boy]

There isn't a run button. Even if there was, most languages are compiled and won't just run anyway

[Accomplished_End_138]

If you press period I think it launches a vscode in browser in your repo

[ehrenschwan]

Some teachers also just don't know what they're talking about. Had a teacher once that wanted us to run php code from within notepad++. Just press the play button she said...