What is Hacktoberfest?
A month-long celebration from October 1st - 31st sponsored by Digital Ocean and GitHub to get people involved in Open Source. Create your very first pull request to any public repository on GitHub and contribute to the open source developer community.
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
How to contribute to this project
Here are 3 quick and painless ways to contribute to this project:
- Add your name to the
CONTRIBUTORS.md
file - Add a profile page to the
profiles
directory - Create a simple "Hello, World" script in a language of your choice
Choose one or all 3, make a pull request for your work and wait for it to be merged!
Getting started
- Fork this repository (Click the Fork button in the top right of this page, click your Profile Image)
- Clone your fork down to your local machine
git clone https://github.com/your-username/hacktoberfest.git
- Create a branch
git checkout -b branch-name
- Make your changes (choose from any task below)
- Commit and push
git add .
git commit -m 'Commit message'
git push origin branch-name
- Create a new pull request from your forked repository (Click the
New Pull Request
button located at the top of your repo) - Wait for your PR review and merge approval!
- Star this repository if you had fun!
Choose from these tasks
1. Add your name
Add your name to the CONTRIBUTORS.md
file using the below convention:
#### Name: [YOUR NAME](GitHub link)
- Place: City, State, Country
- Bio: Who are you?
- GitHub: [GitHub account name](GitHub link)
2. Add a profile page
Add a Your_Name.md
file to the profiles
directory. Use any combination of content and Markdown you'd like. Here is an example:
# Your Name
### Location
Your City/Country
### Academics
Your School
### Interests
- Some Things You Like
### Profile Link
[Your Name](GitHub Link)
Hello, World!
Script
3. Create a Add a hello_world_yourusername.xx
script to the programs
directory in any language of your choice! Here is an example:
// LANGUAGE: Javascript
// ENV: Node.js
// AUTHOR: Farzan F A
// GITHUB: https://github.com/farzanfa
console.log('Hello, World!');
Name the file hello_world_yourusername.xx
. e.g., hello_world_farzan.js
.