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advice and stuff #33

Closed jlipkin8 closed 8 years ago

jlipkin8 commented 8 years ago

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 commented 8 years ago

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:

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

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

jamesxv7 commented 8 years ago

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 commented 8 years ago

Thank You!!!!