!! Coding Fest !! Hacktoberfest :)

khush — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:46:38 +0000

Every year Digital ocean organizes a worldwide open source Competition. In which all the Developers/beginners or experts, everyone is eligible for this Fest. And this fest gives the immense experience on how to contribute to open-source projects.
For beginners, this fest organizes events with great leaders in the field of open-source. Due to this Pandemic, all events and this fest work online, So everyone, from anywhere can join this fest and get the Rewards too.
Simply, Make 4 Pull Request or as many as you can, keep in mind that those PRs must be included in the hacktober fest list and it must be valid. Don't spam the PRs

Steps

1. Register

2. Join

Don't forget to join the Discord Channel for being aware of all the rules and updates.

3. Attend Events

Register yourself for the different events held in the fest. and this would be a good chance to clear all the confusion related to Fest at a time. Because chasing the same goal is easier with like-minded persons.

4. Finding the Repository

Find the perfect Repository/Project for contribution. these steps take time according to your level of understanding of the Environment of Github, highly recommend the course on GitHub from Coursera.
Searching the repository on GitHub by using hacktober tags and after finding the Repo. Be polite to the maintainers and firstly asked them about your contribution and don't forget to read about the Code of Conduct

5. Start contributing

Start doing work on Different projects as soon as possible. But it's better to enjoy throughout the month.

6. Make PRs/Pull Request

last year 4 Pull Request for qualifying this fest and get the Rewards. Rewards include a T-shirt. but it'll only available if the PRs is eligible

Note: information can be changed as per the different years.

Tip: Join the Discord Chanel for updates of any rules.

My Story with Hacktober fest 2020

I've found this fest while scrolling Instagram feeds. I've registered myself for the fest and all goes good. I've found the repositories according to my beginner's level and start contributing which turns out my biggest mistake. I've made 5 PRs in which one is eligible just because only one repo contains hacktober fest tags. Then I'll again start finding the repo and then I started attending the events in my time zone which helps me to solve my issues related to git command, terminals command, etc. Due to this pandemic most, people make Spam PRs which makes a bigger challenge for the maintainers for solving this issue the organizers reduces the benchmark for getting the Swags worldwide and it sets to 45,000 all over the world and they also added another Tag "hacktober-fest accepted" for the maintainers i.e those PRs having "hacktober-fest accepted" tag those are valid PRs. rest is not, this information I got from the Discord Channel. And all the PRs that made it must be eligible i.e means you need to do some valid work on the project. and After made 4 valid PRs I've got a mail that you qualify for the fest, Redeem your Reward Now!! and after 3 months of waiting, I've got my Reward.

Why Python??

khush — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 13:39:16 +0000

“The power of Python is that its code is short and very literal, and advanced users can easily read it, making it suitable for both beginners and advanced programmers,” - Guido van Rossum(The Creator of PYTHON)

Python is an interpreted, high-level and general-purpose programming language. Python's design philosophy emphasizes code readability with its notable use of significant whitespace.

Is it hard? like C,C++, JAVA?

No, Python is not hard for beginner. For Beginner they can learn python to get an idea about the processing of codes. How Control of line is shifted from one statement to other.
In programming Syntax is important and it's like a set of rules which need to follow while writing the codes

!!Surprise!!

python has simplest Syntax from all the other languages.
There are 3 reasons to opt the python as the first language.

1) Open-Source Open-Source
Python is an open source library and it is an example of FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) which means it has the large open source community.

2) Interpreted Language
This means by interpreter each line of code is executes line by line, if any line has error the interpreter stop the execution and throws an error.

3) Large support of Library
Python supports many libraries which helps to reuse to prewritten codes for that purpose. Some of the famous libraries are
Tensor-flowTensor-flow- Machine Learning
OpenCVOpenCV- Computer Vision
NumpyNumpy- Higher Mathematical Model

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