Comment by beej71

As an instructor, I think you should have your stuff private while you're a student in a particular class. Just share the repo with the instructor. The reasoning is that if someone steals your stuff, it's often hard for an instructor to tell who stole from whom. And that's just trouble you don't need. Yes, you can argue commit histories and all that, but why bother?

Once you're out of the class, there's no reason to keep it private in my humble opinion. The answers to everything every instructor gives in school is out there somewhere. And AI can solve most of them.