How to Contribute to an Open Source Project on GitHub
Instructor
Kent C. Dodds
“Feel free to submit a PR!” - words often found in GitHub issues, but met with confusion and fear by many. Getting started with contributing open source is not always straightforward and can be tricky. With this course, you’ll be equipped with the the tools, knowledge, and understanding you need to be productive and contribute to the wonderful world of open source projects. Much of this series speaks about GitHub, but most of the concepts are generally applicable to contributing to any open source project, regardless of where it’s hosted.
So enjoy the course and start contributing to the projects you use and love today!
Free Community Resource
A Community Resource means that it’s free to access for all. The instructor of this lesson requested it to be open to the public.
Learner Reviews
- Karthik3 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
Amazing Explanation. Thank you so much for this. I am thinking of contributing to open source from a long time now.This was helpful.
- joco.codes4 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
It is practical, with real life example.
- Vlad4 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
Great intro into contributing to Open Source! Kent is a great teacher
- Nik Luparev5 years agoHow will you use what you learned from this course?
how to make PR to open source projects on github
- Manoj Kumawat5 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
This course is a quite good introduction to learn about open source contribution and also know github a bit.
- Justin5 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
Easy to follow and understand. Great resource! Thank you.
Course Content
- 21m 47s
- 3
- 42m 15s
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