🎃 Hacktoberfest Starter Project 🎃

A 2019 version of https://github.com/AliceWonderland/hacktoberfest - all credit for this goes to her!

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.

What is Hacktoberfest?

A month-long celebration from October 1st - 31st sponsored by Digital Ocean, GitHub, and Twilio 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. The first 50,000 people to get 5 pull requests will recieve a free t-shirt!

https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/

Getting Started - Easy

• Fork this repository (Click the Fork button in the top right of this page, click your Profile Image)
• Navigate to CONTRIBUTORS.md
• Edit the file and insert your short profile following the instructions below, then click on Commit Changes.
• Navigate to the profiles directory
• Click Create new file and create a new profile following the instructions below, and commit your changes.
• If you would like, navigate to the scripts directory and create a sample Hello World script following the same method!
• 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!

Getting Started - Difficult

• Fork this repository (Click the Fork button in the top right of this page, click your Profile Image)
• Install git on your computer https://git-scm.com
• Clone your fork down to your local machine

git clone https://github.com/your-username/hacktoberfest.git

• Make your changes (choose from any task above)
• Commit and push

git add .
git commit -m "Commit message"
git push origin master

• 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!

Choose from these tasks

1. Add your name

Add your name to the CONTRIBUTORS.md file using the below convention:

#### Name: [YOUR NAME](GitHub link)
- Place: City, State, Country
- Bio: Who are you?
- GitHub: [GitHub account name](GitHub link)

2. Add a profile page

Add a Your_Name.md file to the profiles directory. Use any combination of content and Markdown you'd like. Here is an example:

# Your Name

### Location

Your City/Country

### Academics

Your School

### Interests

- Some Things You Like

### Development

- Inventor of the My Pillow

### Projects

- [My Project](GitHub Link) Short Description

### Profile Link

[Your Name](GitHub Link)

3. Create a Hello, World! Script

Add a language_helloworld_yourusername.xx script to the scripts directory in any language of your choice! Here is an example:

// LANGUAGE: Javascript
// ENV: Node.js
// AUTHOR: Michael Cao
// GITHUB: https://github.com/mcao

console.log('Hello, World!');

Name the file language_helloworld_yourusername.xx. e.g., js_helloworld_mcao.js or py_helloworld_mcao.py.

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: js_helloworld_mcao.js

BONUS!

• See profiles submitted by fellow coders from around the globe!
• Discover some obscure to new and trending languages ... from BrainFuck to Groovy.
• Check out some very creative ways to print out a "Hello, World!" string.
• Check your progress here https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/profile

Reference links

Here is a great tutorial for creating your first pull request by Roshan Jossey: https://github.com/Roshanjossey/first-contributions

Managing your Forked Repo: https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/

Syncing a Fork: https://help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork/

Keep Your Fork Synced: https://gist.github.com/CristinaSolana/1885435

Checkout this list for README examples - Awesome README

Github-Flavored Markdown https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/