kvsm / nigma.io

A developer community for students studying computing related course

Nigma.io

Connect | Code | Career

Who are we?

A developer community for students studying computing related courses, entry level developers wanting to broaden their horizons and senior developers that want to help others that were once in the position they were in. Nigma was created through the frustration of one Computer Science student that had always wanted to learn, but didn't know exactly what to learn.

What is our aim?

The main aim of Nigma is to try and bridge this gap between what software development students learn in education and what is being demanded in the workplace. With NI employers in high demand for top developers, we want to help empower students to help them reach their full potential through keeping them up to date on the latest technology stacks, tech meetups and career prospects. Our target audience is for senior students and graduates that are, either about to, or have just entered NI's software development industry.

Check out our Official Website : http://nigma.io

Join our facebook community group.

Also take a look at our latest Nigma Meetups

Getting Setup

• First time Git setup
• Getting help
• Getting a repository
• Record changes to the repository
  • Tracking new files
  • Staging modified files
  • Ignoring files
  • Viewing staged and unstaged changes
  • Committing your changes
  • Removing files
  • Moving files
• View commit history
• Undoing things

Contributing to open source in general

• Up For Grabs - a list of projects with beginner-friendly issues.
• Issuehub.io - a tool for searching GitHub issues by label and language.
• Code Triage - another, really nice, tool for finding popular repositories and issues filtered by language.
• First Timers Only - a list of bugs that are labelled "first-timers-only".
• YourFirstPR - starter issues on GitHub that can be easily tackled by new contributors.
• Awesome-for-beginners - a GitHub repo that amasses projects with good bugs for new contributors, and applies labels to describe them.
• Openhatch - a non-profit organization that helps lower barriers of entry into open source. You can find bugs and projects here, as well.
• Open Source Guides - Collection of resources for individuals, communities, and companies who want to learn how to run and contribute to an open source project.
• 45 Github Issues Dos and Don’ts- Do's and Don'ts on GitHub.
• GitHub Guides - basic guides on how to use GitHub effectively.
• First Contributions - Make your first open source contribution in 5 minutes. A tool and tutorial to help beginners get started with contributions.

Contributing workflow

Here’s how we suggest you go about proposing a change to this project:

1. Fork this project to your account.
2. Create a branch for the change you intend to make.
3. Make your changes to your fork.
4. Send a pull request from your fork’s branch to our master branch.

Using the web-based interface to make changes is fine too, and will help you by automatically forking the project and prompting to send a pull request too.