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Learn Fast by Contributing to an Open Source Project

Ashraf Alam on March 28, 2019

Did you know how great developers are enhancing them to learn and contribute to new technologies? They follow only 5 steps: explore an open sour...
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Aivan Monceller •

To make this really natural, I suggest don't just start looking randomly for repositories to contribute to. Here is how I choose 'naturally'

  1. Start your own project on Github. Something that truly interest you.
  2. I'm sure you will be using some third-party dependencies for your project. You will encounter issues along the way as well. Take a list of all this third-party dependencies. Out of the list, choose which one you are using the most.
  3. If you encountered a bug for the dependency that you have chosen or want to improve something then start contributing to that project.

This is how I choose which projects I contribute to.

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Fernando B 🚀 •

This is exactly the same steps I follow. I created this project and along the way, contributed to one of the dependencies. github.com/kodaman2/Data_Preserve

A repo you use, is a good way to stay focused about the project and even cultivate new ideas/features for the repo you contribute to.

Another way to start your own repo is to think about things you do in your everyday life or work that are repetitive and might be easily replaced with a program.

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Fernando B 🚀 •

Step 0. Make sure the repo is active. If there are open issues from three years ago, multiple PRs without activity. I would suggest to stay away, unless it is something you use and think you can make better on your own fork.

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dat le tien •

Thanks for suggestion !