Recap

I made 4 contributions to open source projects during my "Late Hacktoberfest" series. My contributions covered a variety of different areas like: creating documentation for repositories, providing efficiency improvements to a codes base, backe-end implementation, and rekindling my old C++ knowledge. Here are the infomration for all the contributions that I made:

1. Part l post, the issue, and the PR

2. Part 2 post, the issue, and the PR

3. Part 3 post, the issue, and the PR

4. Part 4 post, the issue, and the PR

The most challenging part of this experience was finding the right issues to work on. But, thankfully I was able to find things to work on by narrowing my focus and looking for things I wanted to learn and improve on.

What I Learned

I covered a variety of different areas with my contributions. My first contribution, helped me understand the value of CONTRIBUTING documentation and how to create one for repositories, and I learned about CODE_OF_CONDUCT documentation for open source repos. My second contribution, added more tools to my C# tool set and and improved my understanding about using a String vs StringBuilder. My third contribution, rekindled my sleeping C++ knowledge and it was a great review on how to use that programming language again. And my fourth contribution, was a good review on back-end implementation and it also thought me about using custom PR template forms. Overall, I am happy with my experience and it helped me take my first steps in getting involved with open source communities. I am walking away from this experience as a more knowledgeable developer and more excited to continue contributing to open source projects.