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How to start contributing to open source as a junior

Monica Mateiu on November 03, 2020

When you're a junior, keeping up with everything you need to learn on the job can be intimidating enough. So how do you get started with open sourc...
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Jean Paul Ruiz

Excellent article indeed. I have an ETL open source project I have been looking to grow and would be more than happy to get some help and mentor junior developers looking to learn about ETL, PHP, R, and other technologies: github.com/TheCocoTeam/source-watc...

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Monica Mateiu

That looks great, Jean Paul! And thanks for offering help and mentorship to junior devs out there, it means a lot. I know I would hate my job today if it wasn't for the amazing senior developers who've supported me throughout my journey.

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Ngoran Clare-Joyce

Thanks for sharing.

The Overcome the fears section is helpful.

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Thomas Cherickal

Wonderful article. Inspiring. I am now sure that I can contribute to open source, thanks to your testimony!

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dattran1999

How do you find smaller projects? Because all I’m exposed to is the big projects (eg React, Vscode, etc.), and they are so complicated.

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Monica Mateiu

Hmm yes, that was a tricky one to figure out. I just did a GitHub search for my favourite language, Ruby, and then spent lots and lots of time looking at the results, their readme files, their issues etc. But I've recently found out that you can just search for a tag, say 'beginner-friendly', then filter by 'Topics' and language, and voila: github.com/search?l=JavaScript&q=b... - plenty of repos to look through. Good luck!

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Love it this is a great article on overcoming one's barrier to contribute to open source.

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Ricardo Sueiras

Nice!

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Kendall Beaver

This was motivation enough for me to continue learning coding, something I've only dived into recently. Thanks for the article!

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marciokuroki

Thanks for the article.
I always feel fear to get into a opensource project for the reasons you've wrote about...
Now I'm more confident to try harder.

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Reach Allen

Thank you for sharing

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NurUddinShohan

This post helped me alot!
Thank you so much!

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