What is the problem that you are trying to solve ultimately?

Here is a nice tutorial on this matter: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-About-Version-Control

I would suggest the following: For code snippets use Gist https://gist.github.com/ ( It has syntax coloring, it's fast and reliabe, you can create secret gists) And for storing source code files you can just use the plain GitHub functionality. Hope this helps, Alex S.

My first language was actually a scripting language called Lua then moved towards C# as a real programming language. Now I am mostly doing JS through NodeJS.