HACKTOBERFESTTTTTT!!!

Deepak Rawat — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 09:03:22 +0000

Completing something is a great feeling, be it in any field, I have started a lot of things and left it midway thru, like my personal small scale websites that I make, I never update them after hosting until and unless there is a major flaw in the code.
I came to know about hacktoberfest last year, didn't participate back then, was maybe lazy or didn't have enough confidence to participate in events.

This year, a few days before October 1st, I came across a post about hacktoberfest on Twitter I guess, I went through the digitalocean website for hacktoberfest and saw how welcoming the community was, they spoonfed every small detail regarding PR's and working with GitHub.
I loved how easy they made it for everyone, probably the best part for me was, the way they welcomed beginners to contribute to open source.

I learned how to fork, make PR's and all, made my first 2 PR's within 2 days, there were some web dev projects, which helped me settle, it was a great dopamine kick seeing the progress bar on the hacktoberfest website.

A few days later forked another project where I added Bubble sort in 3 languages, Python, Javascript and C++, that day was crazy, learned intricate details and differences between different languages, it was a contribution made to an Algo-book which in my opinion was a great idea.

There are companies coming in our college nowadays, and I am doing some decent amount of leetcode every day, and then I found a repo where people were contributing Leetcode problems, I too contributed a medium level problem, which was better than 95% of all python solutions.

Hacktoberfest has been really really great, I am looking forward to adding the issues in my websites so that I could get some help from the fellow developers in the community.

DEV Community: Deepak Rawat

HACKTOBERFESTTTTTT!!!