Contributing To Open Source – Beginner's Guide

This course covers everything you need to contribute meaningfully to existing open-source software projects.

This course is taught by James Pearce ( https://github.com/jamesgpearce ). He is the former Head of Open Source at Meta, the company that invented React, Hack, and PyTorch, along with 100s of other popular projects. After 10+ years at Facebook (Meta), James became an expert instructor at joinTaro.com and created his own open source project, TinyBase: https://github.com/tinyplex/tinybase. Watch the interview with James here:    • Principal Meta Engineer Teaches You O...  .

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⭐️ Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00:00) Course Introduction
⌨️ (0:05:42) Instructor + Outcomes
⌨️ (0:09:46) What is Open Source?
⌨️ (0:14:10) Projects, Repos, Issues, Pull Requests
⌨️ (0:19:06) The Benefits Of Open Source
⌨️ (0:26:33) The Right Reason To Do Open Source
⌨️ (0:32:27) Improve Something You Use
⌨️ (0:41:59) Find Companies Active In Open Source
⌨️ (0:48:59) Choose The Right Project
⌨️ (0:59:39) Go With The Flow
⌨️ (1:09:40) Identify A First Task
⌨️ (1:21:46) Case Study: ReactJS Open Source Repo
⌨️ (1:24:26) Find The Project Community
⌨️ (1:34:59) Learning The Codebase
⌨️ (1:44:04) What Are The Most Important Modules?
⌨️ (1:48:17) What Opinions Do The Authors Have?
⌨️ (1:52:16) Share What You Learn
⌨️ (1:58:08) Start With Something Small
⌨️ (2:03:14) Good Practices When Making Commits
⌨️ (2:10:25) Be Like Water
⌨️ (2:16:59) Anticipate Common Pushback
⌨️ (2:25:39) Taking The Next Step

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