Hello everyone
it's my first post on this platform, and to be honest I have never read any blogs before. I'm excited to see how it impacts my knowledge of programming technologies. I've been watching YouTube videos for a while, and sometimes have come across some frameworks that would solve an exact problem I was working on at my job / while doing my project. Nevertheless, I hate watching videos, I prefer reading, so dev.to might eliminate the problem I have and expand my view of tools available out there.
Open source
I am currently enrolled in open source development course at Seneca Polytechnic. I have decided to take it since working on large legacy projects with a lot of bugs and uncommented 500-line functions is for some reason my area of passion. You don't get this experience working on school assignments, and open source allows you to experience this in full. Besides, I took cloud computing course before and the professor there (David Humphrey) has taught me a lot of new concepts and practices, so I wanted to take a course that he is teaching.
Goals
As I've said before, I want to contribute to something that's actually meaningful to someone and is being used. It's my 7th semester, and besides co-op, I have never created something for someone to use in real life. I want to change that. Specifically, I am interested in old legacy distributed systems written in Java/C#. However, I also recognize that Python is the most in demand language today, and LLMs are trending, so might explore projects in this area as well.
Interesting open source project
The project I picked was kotaemon: https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon
I found it interesting because it performs exactly a job I currently need on my project, which is giving LLM responses based on documents uploaded. It is exciting to see someone already implementing the idea you had, because you don't have to implement it from scratch using low level frameworks.
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