DEV Community: Muhammad Ahsan

Beginner guide to Hacktoberfest with step by step guide to your first contribution.

Muhammad Ahsan — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 10:56:43 +0000

Hacktoberfest

Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open-source software by DigitalOcean that encourages participation in giving back to the open-source community. Developers get involved by completing pull requests, participating in events, and donating to open source projects. During this event, anyone can support open source by contributing changes and earn limited-edition swag.

Version Control

A version control system, or VCS, tracks the history of changes as people and teams collaborate on projects together. As developers make changes to the project, any earlier version of the project can be recovered at any time.

Here is the list of popular source code versioning and management tools:

GitHub.
Git.
GitLab.

During hacktoberfest mostly contributions are done on GitHub and GitLab

HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PARTICIPATE AND COMPLETE HACKTOBERFEST:

Register anytime between September 26 and October 31
Pull requests can be made in any GITHUB or GITLAB hosted project that’s participating in Hacktoberfest (look for the “hacktoberfest” topic)
Project maintainers must accept your pull/merge requests for them to count toward your total
Have 4 pull/merge requests accepted between October 1 and October 31 to complete Hacktoberfest
The first 40,000 participants (maintainers and contributors) who complete Hacktoberfest can elect to receive one of two prizes: a tree planted in their name, or the Hacktoberfest 2022 t-shirt.

Repositories for contribution on GitHub

All repository can be found here

Step by step guide to your first contribution.

The repository I found most helpful for newbie is here

You can follow the step by step instructions at this

HackClub

The goal of Hack Club is to help you become a hacker. We want a space at every school where people are making interesting things with code, every week. Schools don’t provide that, so we’re creating it in every school to make building things accessible to everyone.

Thanks and Regards,

Muhammad Ahsan

Need help and suggestions about career

Muhammad Ahsan — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 12:33:57 +0000

Hi everyone, My name is Muhammad Ahsan. I'm final year student of Computer Engineering and I started programming during my 2nd year. Till now I do my best to learn something new e.g new Programming concept or some syntax etc.

But due to gap and not practicing much for sometime now I feel completely lost.

I want to be a ML Developer and also did a 3 month internship in startup and been in Python for sometime.
Here's my GitHub: https://github.com/Muhammad-Ahsan-Rasheed

Now please suggest something because I'm completely lost and can't focus.

How can I resume again need suggestions from seniors.

Thanks in advance for your kind help.

Using Python for Contributing to Open Source

Muhammad Ahsan — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 17:39:30 +0000

Hi everyone,

I'm into Python for round about a year. I've tried my best to go through all basic concepts and also done some projects.

Now I'm planning to contribute to Open Source and also planning to appear on GSoC 2022.

Can you please guide me that how can I use python - count my level as intermediate - for GSoC.

I'm also sharing my GitHub for better idea: GitHub

Just Completed 100 Contributions on GitHub

Muhammad Ahsan — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 12:24:22 +0000

Today at Last Day of 2021. I completed 100 Contributions on GitHub. Most of them are my personal projects and programming practice.

I created my GitHub Account in mid of the 2021. I'm also learning about Git and this is just start of my journey with GitHub.

The fun is that I just completed my secret repository and its awesome. Check it out at here

Coding is looking like fun after getting access to Copilot

Muhammad Ahsan — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 12:39:08 +0000

Recently I got access to GitHub Copilot and its fun coding with Copilot. Loved the experience coding with Copilot.

Hello World!

Muhammad Ahsan — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:54:51 +0000

Hi There,

My name is Muhammad Ahsan. I'm Student of Computer Engineering. I'm very passionate about Programming(It's been about 2 years for me in Programming Field- I started from scratch). Currently I'm into Python and Machine Learning. I'm also an active member of multiple developer communities. I'm HackClub Leader and also the Founder of society named Zakariyan Coding Society.

I love Coding, Debugging and reading other code...

Regards,