I’m currently a B.Tech Computer Science Engineering student and I’m passionate about programming and learning new technologies.
This Hacktoberfest, my goal is to:
- 🌱 Learn more about open source
- 🤝 Connect and collaborate with developers
- 📚 Learn from real-world projects
- 🚀 Improve my development skills
I’m looking forward to exploring open-source projects, contributing wherever I can, and learning from the amazing DEV Community.
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Welcome, and good luck with the first one. If you want something small to start with, I make an open-source app called Styx, and issue #11 is a handful of stale-wording fixes in one text file: github.com/NicholasFlemmer/styx-ap.... It needs no deep knowledge of the code, there's a contributing guide, and I reply to issues within 2 working days.
Hacktoberfest is such a great entry point — the low-stakes "good first issue" labels let you learn the contribution workflow (fork → branch → PR → review → merge) without the pressure of a critical codebase. A few things that helped me early on: pick repos with active maintainers and clear CONTRIBUTING.md files so you're not guessing on style or test requirements; run the project locally first to understand what you're touching; and treat every review comment as a mini code review lesson, not criticism. Also, don't overlook documentation fixes — they're often the fastest way to get a merged PR and build confidence before tackling logic changes. If you hit a stale PR that's been open a while, a polite "still needed?" comment can sometimes unblock it for you. Keep a running log of what you contributed (repo, issue, what you learned) — it makes for a solid portfolio talking point later PS: the tool I meant is on labagent .tech
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