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Ali Sherief

Yes of course you can contribute to open source projects. The main hurdle is not knowing enough about the background of issues and bugs in order to fix them but once you overcome that, by means of studying the project code you want to contribute to, it becomes easy to make patches.

Specifically, look for issues that have beginner tags on them because those are easy issues to solve that don't require as much experience to tackle as normal issues.

And finally, you can also contribute to project documentation. That doesn't have a minimum skill level and as long as you understand the proejct's APIs or how it works you will be able to fill in the TODOs.