🎃 HacktoberFest at Aarhus University 🎃

Readme borrowed from: AliceWonderland/hacktoberfest

Use this project to make your first contribution to an open source project on GitHub. Practice making your first pull request to a public repository before doing the real thing!

Celebrate Hacktoberfest by getting involved in the open source community by completing some simple tasks in this project.

This repository is open to all members of the GitHub community. Any member may contribute to this project without being a collaborator.

What is Hacktoberfest?

A month-long celebration from October 1st - 31st sponsored by Digital Ocean and GitHub to get people involved in Open Source. Create your very first pull request to any public repository on GitHub and contribute to the open source developer community.

https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/

How to contribute to this project

Complete this simple task to contribute to this project:

• Add an algorithm of choice in a language of choice

Complete this task, make a pull request for your work and wait for it to be merged!

Getting started

• Fork this repository (Click the Fork button in the top right of this page, click your Profile Image)
• Clone your fork down to your local machine

git clone https://github.com/your-username/CSAUHacktoberFest2020.git

• Create a branch

git checkout -b branch-name

• Make your changes (choose from any task below)
• Commit and push

git add .
git commit -m 'Commit message'
git push origin branch-name

• Create a new pull request from your forked repository (Click the New Pull Request button located at the top of your repo)
• Wait for your PR review and merge approval!
• Star this repository if you had fun!

Complete this task

Add an algorithm of choice in a language of choice

Add a username-algorithm.xx file to the folder of your chosen programming language. e.g., soer7022-merge_sort.py or soer7022-dfs.java

These algorithms can be as advanced or as simple as you would like, even just an "Hello, World!" algorithm:

// LANGUAGE: Java
// AUTHOR: Søren Eriksen
// GITHUB: https://github.com/soer7022

class HelloWorld {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello, World!");
    }
}

Remember to include a comment at the top of you file that looks similar to the comment at the top of the example

Reference links

Here is a great tutorial for creating your first pull request by Roshan Jossey: https://github.com/Roshanjossey/first-contributions

Managing your Forked Repo: https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/

Syncing a Fork: https://help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork/

Keep Your Fork Synced: https://gist.github.com/CristinaSolana/1885435

Checkout this list for README examples - Awesome README

Github-Flavored Markdown https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/

Additional references added by contributors

GitHub license explained https://choosealicense.com