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Rahul T
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Lets bag the T-shirt of Hacktoberfest together πŸ˜ƒ

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Introduction

Let me speak a few words about hacktoberfest if you are not aware of!!

Hacktoberfest is open to everyone in our global community. Whether you’re a developer, student learning to code, event host, or company of any size, you can help drive growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to complete the challenge.

  • Hacktoberfest is a celebration open to everyone in our global community.
  • Pull requests can be made in any GitHub-hosted repositories/projects.
  • You can sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31.

What you will get?? πŸ€”

You can either choose a T-shirt or plant a tree

what you want to do?? πŸ€”

You want to just register to the event and try to create 5 Pull Request. This is all enough

Prerequisites

  • git
  • github account

If you have this you are ready to start. If you don't have this just go and download git and create a github account

How to register

Inorder to register go to website and click start hacking

I am new to programming, I don't know to write even Hello world in any programming language

If you belong to this, Nothing to worry at all!!
Because the projects hosted in github is not only programming. There are lot of books, designs etc. Choose anything you think you can contribute(no need to be an expert in that topic)

Wait wait I don't know anything about git

Here are some resources to learn about git and github

I know coding, what should i do?? πŸ€”

If you know to code, You can search in github for hacktoberfest, in the filter you can select issues. This will give you a lot of projects you can contribute to.

flipkart-scrap

To get started you can give a PR to this repository which is owned by me. I will surely accept your pull request if there is no errors. This will help you to complete your 1/5 of the PR's to be done.

The repo is here flipkart-scraper, you can read the future plans section in readme and do accordingly.
Don't worry if you don't know much coding in python. You can just make the banner look better. If i like the banner i will merge it

In the comment section you can help others by providing your github repo
Lets help each otherπŸ˜ƒ πŸ˜ƒ

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