Use this project to make your first contribution to an open source project on GitHub. Practice making your first pull request to a public repository before doing the real thing!
Celebrate Hacktoberfest by getting involved in the open source community by completing some simple tasks in this project.
This repository is open to all members of the GitHub community. Any member may contribute to this project without being a collaborator.
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/
Here are 3 quick and painless ways to contribute to this project:
- Give this repository a star β
- Add your name to the
CONTRIBUTORS.md
file - Create a simple "Hello, World" script in a language of your choice Choose one or both, make a pull request for your work and wait for it to be merged!
- 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!
Add a hello_world_yourusername.xx
script to the scripts
directory in any language of your choice! Here is an example:
'''
LANGUAGE: Python
AUTHOR: Chandra Sekhar Bala
GITHUB: https://github.com/Chandra-Sekhar-Bala
'''
print('Hello, World!')
Name the file hello_world_yourusername.xx
. e.g., hello_world_chandra_sekhar_bala.py
or hello_world_chandra_sekhar_bala.cpp
.
Add your name to the CONTRIBUTORS.md
file using the below convention:
#### Name: [YOUR NAME]
- Place: City, State, Country
- Bio: Who are you?
- GitHub: [GitHub account name](GitHub link)
Don't forget to include the comments as seen above. Feel free to include additional information about the language you choose in your comments too! Like a link to a helpful introduction or tutorial.
Here is my hello_world
example: hello_world_chandra_sekhar_bala.py
Thank you, happy hacking :-)