YuganshT79 / Collaboration-For-Beginners

A Project to contribute to if you are a beginner.

Collaboration Guide for Beginners

Learning to collaborate can be difficult for the first time contributors, and it may seem tedious to find open source projects to contribute to without adequate knowledge of programming. But fear not, this project is made especially to ease the process of contributing to an open source project for a newcomer. You can learn to contribute to open source projects by contributing to this project, and you wouldn't require any programming knowledge at all, to contribute to this.

Here are the steps to contribute by making your first successful pull requests:

1. Star this repository
2. Fork this repository.

3. Clone the fork you just created on your computer.

4. Open Contributors.md and enter the details in the following format. (Don't forget to add two spaces at the end of each line.)

• Name: "Your Name"
  Place: "Enter place here"
  Bio: "Enter info about yourself"
  GitHub: [GitHub Username](github profile url)

5. Enter the following commands into your git console

git add .
git commit -m "Added myself to Contributors.md"
git push origin master

6. Now create a pull request and add the title as "Added myself to Contributors.md"

7. Sit back and relax while your pull request is being reviewed and merged.

Reference Links

• Syncing a Fork : https://help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork/
• Merging an upstream repository into your fork : https://help.github.com/articles/merging-an-upstream-repository-into-your-fork/
• Configuring a Remote for a Fork : https://help.github.com/articles/configuring-a-remote-for-a-fork/
• Collaborating with Issues and Pull Requests : https://help.github.com/categories/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/

Further Instructions to Proceed from here

• Open Source Guide
• First Contributions
• Hacktoberfest

How To Choose a License

GitHub License Explained : https://choosealicense.com