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Items tagged opensource, softwareengineering in 2012

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To become a better developer ? To read more OR to create/contribute to open source projects?

Contribute to an existing project, rather than starting one yourself. There are a bunch of benefits:

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9:58 am / 14th November 2012 / opensource, programming, softwareengineering, quora, open-source

How can a new developer get involved in open-source projects?

I was going to say the same thing. Find a useful project in GitHub (preferably one that clearly has an active maintainer), fork it, fix a bug (look at the project’s issue tracker) then make a pull request.

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4:14 pm / 14th February 2012 / opensource, softwareengineering, webdevelopment, quora, open-source

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