Open Source
I’ve been a member of the website team for a few months now with Hack for LA. It’s been a great learning experience and I am starting to love open source so much. We have weekly meetings about 3 times per week, and it gives me a good opportunity to learn and help maintain the website! It kind of feels like working for my first tech job, but for free! I do this for the love of computer science, not for the money, so it works out for me. I recently learned how to use Docker while contributing to Hack 4 LA. We have an amazing team of leaders and our Slack community is pretty cool as well.
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At the moment, I am trying to find a new issue that’s more on my level, they have a certain way of easing into the more complicated issues, and I am working on my second issue to solve. The team is so swift to solve issues that it can be hard to find one for my role and complexity level. The Kanban board (project board) is a lovely place for me, I enjoy looking at all the work that’s being done or that needs completed, each week. I’ve recently been taking on Code Reviews, as we are required to complete Code Reviews. It’s a really great opportunity to see other code and learn from other developers. There’s a few fellow from Formation also in the community, and Code For America has an apprenticeship opening up in three days that I hope to get for my first gig! Fingers crossed! I am focusing on apprenticeships at this point, and I am also taking courses on Codecademy.
I recently became a Codecademy PRO member, and it’s awesome! I am learning so much on this platform, I plan to complete the Full Stack Engineer path and right now I am working on the Computer Science path. It covers a lot of things that I want to learn such as Discrete Mathematics and also Intro to Operating Systems. I grew up loving Math, as well as Operating Systems, always been a huge fan of William Gates and Microsoft.
I would advise any programmer to contribute to open source if they can… it’s beneficial in so many ways, and keeps you sharp! If anyone knows of any good repositories for open source, please share them! I am interested in sports, gaming, data, and just about anything else in the field of computer science!
