The latest articles on DEV Community by Shashank dwivedi (@shanky21). https://dev.to/shanky21 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F504176%2Fe346a830-98b9-4a7a-b33f-0e02b75d2c3d.jpeg https://dev.to/shanky21 en Shashank dwivedi Mon, 02 Nov 2020 07:43:16 +0000 https://dev.to/shanky21/hacktoberfest-challenge-completed-2j35 https://dev.to/shanky21/hacktoberfest-challenge-completed-2j35 <h3> Why I Participated in HacktoberFest. </h3> <p>Its very simple. I wanted to get a T-shirt. Yes, that's the reason for me.</p> <h3> Background </h3> <p>Firstly, I was so excited that now, the fest is on. So, I will participate in it. I've made one thing clear to submit 4 PRs as soon as I could. So, I tried finding beginner repos on Github. <br> It took some time cause I wasn't able to find suitable repo for my level, as all of them were very hard to understand. </p> <h3> Contributions </h3> <p>Firstly, I saw a video on Youtube how to create your first pull request. It was on DevDojo site. I haven't contributed before so, I just modified few lines of docs and created pull req. but, It wasn't helping the site in anyway so they tagged it INVALID.<br> <a href="https://github.com/thedevdojo/tails/pull/76">https://github.com/thedevdojo/tails/pull/76</a></p> <p>I really felt very bad about it. as I never meant to spam any repo but, unknowingly I did.</p> <p>Then, I searched again for a beginner repo and found one repo for welcoming beginners on Github. Made one PR there.<br> <a href="https://github.com/bonn0062/github_welcome_wall/pull/72">https://github.com/bonn0062/github_welcome_wall/pull/72</a></p> <p>Now, My first PR was done. So, I was very excited. then I searched for Machine learning basic repo. made another PR there,<br> <a href="https://github.com/aswinzz/Machine-Learning-Algorithms/pull/27">https://github.com/aswinzz/Machine-Learning-Algorithms/pull/27</a></p> <p>I again searched for Machine learning Repo and made my one more PR,<br> This was my first PR in any big Repo like this, and it got merged. made me so happy. <br> <a href="https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning/pull/736">https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning/pull/736</a></p> <p>As I am first timer, I was so keen to get HF T-shirt. for that I have to be in the first 70,000 people. But, I was tired of submitting 3 PRs in a day. so, I Made a PR in My Friends Repo.<br> <a href="https://github.com/Abhinavmaurya747/Face-Recognition-One-Shot-Learning-/pull/1">https://github.com/Abhinavmaurya747/Face-Recognition-One-Shot-Learning-/pull/1</a></p> <p>This is how I made all of my PRs. </p> <h3> Reflections </h3> <p>Now, at the end. Even if I submitted my PRs in basic Repos, I feel experienced enough do contribute more and more whether it's hacktoberfest or not. Now, I want to submit Good PRs in Big Repos, like AboutCode, etc. <br> I want to participate in GSOC Next year and I'm gonna do it.</p> hacktoberfest