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Discussion on: How to get start understanding source code of open source projects?

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Patricia Ranakoski

Hi Linh,
Sorry I haven’t contributed yet so can’t be of much help, actually I’m going to ask you how do you find open source projects to contribute? I would love start contributing as well.

All the best and hope you get good help here.

Take care

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mainrs

Find a project you use, take a look at the issues and start working on them. Most of the people will help or guide you if you ask nicely. The good first issue label is often used for issues that are easy to solve.

The following GitHub page lists these issues and presents them nicely: github.com/topics/good-first-issue

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Patricia Ranakoski

Thanks for answering, I’ll have a look at it

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Linh Truong Cong Hong • Edited

Hello Patricia,

There are many open source projects available on Github. Maybe you can get started with projects related to your everyday works.

I have just figured out a very nice video on YouTube, made by a Facebook engineer, showing basic steps for contributing to an open source project:

youtube.com/watch?v=c6b6B9oN4Vg

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Patricia Ranakoski

Thanks for sharing I’ll have a look at it , and hopefully start to contribute soon.