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Why Junior Developers Should Contribute to Open-Source Software?

Open-source software (OSS) is a rapidly growing industry that provides many benefits to the individuals and businesses who use it, as well as to its programmers.

However, for developers especially, contributing to open-source software provides many valuable advantages and opens doors to a number of highly lucrative and rewarding opportunities, and there are not too many other industries that can boast the massive number of global contributions like the open-source community can.

While each person may have different individual motivations, here is a list of some of the most common reasons why developers contribute to open-source software:

  1. Improve Coding Skills

  2. Gain Early Experience

  3. Increase Community and Peer Recognition

  4. Greater Job Prospects

  5. improve the project for other developers

  6. Earn money

  7. Improve Software on a User and Business Level.

For the junior android developers that want to learn how to collaborate to the world of open source just check out little tutorials I did to help you kickstart your first PR(Pull Request )link below

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Credit to https://clearcode.cc/blog/why-developers-contribute-open-source-software/

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