There is absolutely no requirement (globally speaking) for contributing to open source, in fact it can be very valuable to learn from doing so!
Many projects (well, mainly the larger ones) even mark some issues as being easy to pick up; which would be ideal for someone looking to dive in.
Do note that many projects have contributor guidelines etc (how code should be formatted etc), but usually that's described somewhere, so it'll be different project to project.
There is absolutely no requirement (globally speaking) for contributing to open source, in fact it can be very valuable to learn from doing so!
Many projects (well, mainly the larger ones) even mark some issues as being easy to pick up; which would be ideal for someone looking to dive in.
Do note that many projects have contributor guidelines etc (how code should be formatted etc), but usually that's described somewhere, so it'll be different project to project.
Good luck!
Thank you for your answer!
I will try to find some of those "easy to pick up" issues and carefully read contributor guidelines 😁