advice and stuff

[jlipkin8]

Oh hey! I don't remember how I cam across your github account, but IT HAS SOME FUN STUFF. So I'm taking an class at a local community college that requires us to contribute to an open source project. I'm very beginner when it comes to code. I know some JavaScript, made it a few chapters into Eloquent JavaScript and I know some C++( I am taking a C++ Data Structures and Algorithms class) so that's where I'm at. Do you have any advice for finding open source projects that a beginner can comprehend and possible contribute to? Thanks!

[notwaldorf]

Hiya! Yay, glad you like it! Sorry I missed responding to this; I saw it, and then there was a code fire, and then it got lost in the cave that is my inbox! 😓Hopefully it's not too late!

By the way, Eloquent JavaScript is the best! It's my favourite intro book to anything ever, so 👍 to that.

Here's a bunch of sites I can think about that might help with finding a project:

• Your first PR is a twitter account that shares good-first-issues which are available for people to work on
• 24 pull requests has a list of projects that are looking for contributions. where you can filter by languages you care about . The help-wanted and beginner tags are the winners and indicate good first bugs. Documentation bugs are also potentially easy things to work on on too (and I guarantee the project maintainers will be eternally grateful for these PRs 🍰)
• Openhatch is another similar "search for projects who want contributions" site

If you just want to practice and have fun programming, then

• @rmurphey recently released a couple JS exercises for beginners, which are fun side projects to work on
• In the same theme, @jendewalt did a neat thing where she made 180 websites in 180 days. You could always look at the ones she did, and try to code them yourself if you want more practice. Some are super fun!

Hopefully one of these will work out for you! Let me know if they don't, I can try to think of more!

[jamesxv7]

Something that has worked form me is the Changelog Nightly newsletter. It is basically a list with the latest popular repo in Github. Many of these repo still have not reached the stardom and most require help. Usually you can find very interesting things in that letter.

Happy coding!

[jlipkin8]

Thank You!!!!