Learn-to-code

Alted Welcome you All to Learn to Code.

We beileve in Learning is Fun

This repository is the Alt-Ed commitment towards the opensource and learning to code. Here in this repository we welcome both begineers as well as experienced coders both can make some awesome contributions. We believe there is no such thing as small contribution.

This repository is Open source code base for variety of languages. This repository helps first time open source contributor to make their first PR and make some meaningful contribution to opensource projects.

What you can contribute?

1. Contribute in the code base. Provide programming example no matter how small or big it to the respective programming language folder if you don't find a folder with the language you want to contribute create it.
2. Contribute with projects. Any project that you did in your school college or university you can put it here in the respective programming language folder.
3. Contribute in Documentation. If you see there is way to improve our documentation or you find a typo or any broken link you can contribute in it as well.

How to Contribute?

Step 1

Look in the issues if the change you are doing is available and issues section is it assigned to someone or not if you can't find any issue open create one. Anyone from our team will assign you the issue then you can start contributing

step 2 Fork this repository

You can fork this repository by clicking on fork button on top right corner. Once you fork this will create a copy of repo on your account

step 3 Clone the repository

To clone the repository go to your account open this repo and either click on clone button or run the command below to get this repository on your local machine

git clone "URL you just copied"

e.g. git clone https://github.com/yourgithubusername/reponame.git

step 4 Lets make some contributions

Make changes to files on your local machine work on the issue you're assigned.

step 5 Add Changes and Commit Changes

Now we have to add changes that we made to the branch so for that we will run following command.

git add .

Now we have to commit changes, commit message should always be clear, to commit use command below.

git commit -m "resolved the <issue>"

step 6 Push changes to GitHub

Now we have to push the changes that we made to remote repository on specified branch to do so use command below.

git push origin <branch-name>

name of branch is same as you created in step 3

e.g git push origin mybranch

step 7 Submit your changes for review

Once you have pushed your code to GitHub, it's now time to create pull request, you will go to the repository click on compare and pull request and submit the pull request.

Soon, we will be merging all your pull requests to the main branch of project and you will also get notification once your pull request is merged with existing code base. After that you will be able to see your details in contributor section on the page below.