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Lakshita Kumawat
Lakshita Kumawat

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My Experience Of First Time Participating in Hacktoberfest 2024

This is a submission for the 2024 Hacktoberfest Writing challenge: Contributor Experience

🔥 Introduction

This was my first time to participate in hacktobefest and also the first time I participated in a open source competition. I learned a lot from it and I am happy that my 2 pr has been accepted😃

❄️ How I heard about hacktoberfest?

I heard about it from DEV community. As I love to participate in competiton organised by DEV community, I was looking for the upcoming competition and I found hacktoberfest competition. After that I google about it and find more information about it.

I also found some video of unboxing hacktoberfest 2022 swags. But I was a bit sad about hearing that this time the participates will only get digital badges cause I never get any swags on completing competition (actually this was my first time participating in a big competition and i want to flex them to my friends😅)

⚡️ My journey

I want to share one thing. Before participating in this competition, when I saw a repo with many contributers I thought that they first form a team and only the members can contribute. Well, I was wrong about that 🤔.

Also I dont have idea about how to forking a repo or how to create a branch and the idea behind it. Also for updating my repo I use the vscode feature

Now lets come on the point 😅

⭐️ Registeration

I registered for hacktoberfest on 13 october cause I was a little busy. After registering, I start finding a repo for contribution. I spend the whole day looking for the project 🥲.

✨️ Finding a Repo for Contribution

I want to contribute in a repo which are popular but when i saw the issue i was like what the hell is this?🥹 SDKs, unit test, bugs, etc. You know what i have 1 and half year experience but i have spend much time in frontend. I also learned nodejs and express but i haven't worked much with Api and those repos also have some modules that i never heard of. All this opened my eyes 😶. Now, i feel i am a bad programmer 😭. But when you are a student, you dont get enough time for coding 😮‍💨.

So, my whole day was waste. On the second day, I finally find a repo named Mid West Pumkin. And i get assigned for responsive layout. I was very happy about that 🥳. This was the first time I was assigned. Then, the next day I complete the work and send the first pr. My second pr was also on responsive layouts . The third issue was adding a dark mode with local storage. I choose this because i never worked with local storage before.

My first three prs was on the same repo. Later, I found a repo named Mini-projects. I made a password strength checker and send a pr and it was also accepted 🥳.

🎉 Achievements

After my first pr was accepted by the maintainer, I got a badge on github. It was the pull shark. I was very happy to get my first badge🤩. Also my two pr has been accepted and a got level 2 hacktoberfest badge. Now, I am waiting for my remaining two pr to be accepted 🔥

An image of @lakshitakumawat's Holopin badges, which is a link to view their full Holopin profile

🌈 Conclusion

It was a nice experience. I see many troubles and issue but at the end I was able to submit 4 prs. Now, I hope my remaining two pr will be accepted too. Then, I can say with proud that a made a difference 🔥. I know my contributions are very small but it was the first time. But dont forget that Quantity is fun but Quality is key 🔑. This quote help me at every point in the competition. And a big thanks to Digital Ocean for organising Hacktoberfest ♥️

Happy coding 🎉

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Lakshita Kumawat • Edited

@anmolbaranwal Thanks for reading. I know its name is a bit strange😅. I want to contribute in popular repos but i am not good like you. You have learned a lot of frameworks. Did you also participate in hacktoberfest?

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Anmol Baranwal

I contributed as a maintainer last time, but not this time. I’m not really into the idea of doing open source just for perks haha, though there's nothing wrong with it. Just keep doing what you do.. and in time, you will be far better than me :)

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Anmol Baranwal

Great 🔥 Happy to read about your experience. Mid West Pumkin sounds like a great repo name lol.

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Lakshita Kumawat • Edited

Thanks for motivation @anmolbaranwal 😁 . Its a big thing that you read my post. You know what, my brother has got stickers, and rewards from different competitions and i also want to get rewards and flex them to him

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