Topics in Open Source Development

My Contributions During Hacktoberfest 2018 I got involved with open-source development this September in order to gain valuable experience working with projects that are relevant to me as a software developer and explore the open-source community as a whole. I was fortunate because a month after I started, I learned about Hacktoberfest, which targets new contributors like me and helps them get involved with projects on Github.  Throughout the month of October, my goal was to finish five pull requests that targeted different aspects of open-source. I've achieved my goal with a total of six pull requests (although I consider the 4th and 5th pull request as one because they essentially do the same thing on different directories). In addition to completing these pull requests, I made sure to write blogs about my progress. Summary of Contributions AlgoWiki AlgoWiki is a medium sized project, which focuses on collecting resources surrounding the field of artifici...

Contributing to Pandas (Part 2) Pandas is a famous open-source library for Python that provides high-performance and easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools. It is often used in the machine learning field. Pandas project has over 1,300 contributors and 18,000 commits, which makes it one of the biggest open-source projects related to the machine learning field. Hacktoberfest 2018 This year I am participating in Hacktoberfest. Throughout the month of October, I will need to make 5 pull requests with contributions to one or more projects on Github. This is my fifth contribution to Hacktoberfest and I came across the Pandas project on Github in my previous contribution.  Throughout this Hacktoberfest I'm trying to find different ways to contribute to the open-source community. I've already explored non-code contributions and how they can be useful. I also explored contributing to a start up project. Now, in order to gain experience with working on a large ...

Contributing to Pandas Pandas is a famous open-source library for Python that provides high-performance and easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools. It is often used in the machine learning field. Pandas project has over 1,300 contributors and 18,000 commits, which makes it one of the biggest open-source projects related to the machine learning field. Hacktoberfest 2018 This year I am participating in Hacktoberfest. Throughout the month of October, I will need to make 5 pull requests with contributions to one or more projects on Github. This is my fourth contribution to Hacktoberfest and I came across the Pandas project on Github for this contribution.  Throughout this Hacktoberfest I'm trying to find different ways to contribute to the open-source community. I've already explored non-code contributions and how they can be useful. I also explored contributing to start up project. Now, in order to gain experience with working on a large open-source proj...

Contributing to C_plus_plus_Algos (Part 2) C_plus_plus_Algos is a recently created project on Github (targeting Hacktoberfest) that attempts to accumulate code examples for different algorithms and problems in C++. So far the project has done a great job of accumulating different types of sorts in C++ (linear, merge, radix, bubble... sorts).  However, after contributing the Knapsack problem and its solution in C++ to this project in my previous contribution, I noticed that the structure of the project is very scattered and lacks organization. This is when I thought that it will be beneficial for the project to refactor the repository and create an organized directory structure, have a uniform naming convention for files, and provide instructions for new contributors. Hacktoberfest 2018 This year I am participating in Hacktoberfest. Throughout the month of October, I will need to make 5 pull requests with contributions to one or more projects on Github. This is my third...

Contributing to C_plus_plus_Algos C_plus_plus_Algos is a recently created project on Github (targeting Hacktoberfest) that attempts to accumulate code examples for different algorithms and problems in C++. So far the project has done a great job of accumulating different types of sorts in C++ (linear, merge, radix, bubble... sorts). However, since this is a new project, it is lacking many other algorithms and famous problems in C++. In order to help a new project develop further, I decided to contribute a well known Knapsack problem and a way to solve this problem in C++.  Hacktoberfest 2018 This year I am participating in Hacktoberfest. Throughout the month of October, I will need to make 5 pull requests with contributions to one or more projects on Github. This is my second contribution to Hacktoberfest and I came across C_plus_plus_Algos project on Github for this contribution. I thought that it would be a good experience for me to get involved in one of the earlies...

Contributing to AlgoWiki AlgoWiki is a project that attempts to bring together resources on different topics and different programming languages surrounding the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence. These resources include websites, books, articles, and other resources that are helpful for people beginning to learn machine learning and artificial intelligence, and is a good reference for the people who are already experienced in these fields. Hacktoberfest 2018 This year I am participating in Hacktoberfest. Throughout the month of October, I will need to make 5 pull requests with contributions to one or more projects on Github. This is my first contribution to Hacktoberfest and I decided to explore a different way of contributing to open source. While my first contribution consisted of code to a programming project, this time I decided to contribute knowledge resources to a project that attempts to create a knowledge base. Contributing to Open Source ...