Hacktoberfest-2022-contibutions

Introduction

Hacktoberfest is a period for celebrating open source software. This period lasts a month and anyone can participate by making atleast four pull/merge requests to repositories on GitHub.We welcome everyone who’s already part of the open-source software community, and anyone who is interested in diving in.

Note: This repository will be respecting the Hacktoberfest Code of Conduct and conventional commits.

How to contribute

There are 4 available tasks and each task will be considered as valid by the Hacktoberfest team if properly carried out. Below are the tasks:

Getting started

• Fork this repository (Click the Fork button in the top right of this page, click your Profile Image)
• Clone your fork down to your local machine

git clone https://github.com/your-username/hacktoberfest-2022-contributions

• Add the upstream branch to your project with the following command

git remote add upstream https://github.com/WTMBambili/Hacktoberfest-2022-contibutions.git

• Fetch and merge from the upstream branch using

git fetch upstream
git checkout branch-name
git merge upstream/main

• Create a branch

git checkout -b branch-name

• Make your changes by copying and replacing the text according to the selected task(choose from any task below)
• Commit and push

git add .
git commit -m 'feat:Commit message'
git push origin branch-name

• 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!!!

  • Task 1 (Introduction)

  For task 1, follow these instructions below: Add your name to the CONTRIBUTORS.md in the Task1 file using the below convention:

  • Respect the MARKDOWN formatting

• Create a branch

    git checkout -b first-task

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

• Commit the changes made and push

     git commit -m "feat: added <username> as contributor"
  
     git push -u
  

  Note: All pull requests should be opened between the 1^st of October, and 31^st of October will be counted by the HacktoberFest team Thanks for understanding.

  • Go to your github and a pull request

• Task 2 (Profile)

Add your changes to Profile.md file in the Task2 directory.

• Create a new branch for this task and call it second-task.

      git checkout -b second-task

Here is an example:

# Your Name

### Location

Your City/Country

### Academics

Your School

### Interests

- Some Things You Like

### Profile Link

[Your Name](GitHub Link)

### LinkedIn Handle

linkedIn username

• Commit these changes and make a pull request for this task.

      git commit -m "feat: added <username> profile"
  
      git push

  • Open a pull request from github.

  • Task 3 (Coding Experience)

  Create a new branch

       git checkout -b third-task

  • Add changes to Coding-experience.md file in the Task3 directory
  • This task is in relation to your coding experience and even if you dont have any experience thats still fine!!! It's done as follows:

  ### Favorite Programming language
  
  - Python
  - Javascript
  
  ### Project link
  
  [Your Name](GitHub Link)
  
  ### Little project bio
  
  This projects does......

• Commit, push and make a pull request

  git commit -m "feat: added educational background of <username>"
  
  git push

• Open a pull request.

• Task 4 (Project)

Create a new branch

        git checkout -b fourth-task

Create a hello_world_yourusername.xx script to the Task4 directory in any language of your choice! Here is an example:

// LANGUAGE: Javascript
// ENV: Node.js
// AUTHOR: Stephanie Nkwatoh
// GITHUB: https://github.com/steph237

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

Name the file hello_world_yourusername.xx. e.g., hello_world_steph237.js or hello_world_steph237.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.

    git commit -m "feat: added a helloworld program in ...."

    git push

Open a pull request

HAPPY CODING!!!!