4 articles tagged with ""beginners""
I've been writing PHP and JavaScript for 7 years. Strings were never a problem. Then I tried to write 'Hello, World!' in Rust and suddenly there were TWO string types, neither of them was what I expected, and the compiler was yelling at me. Welcome to Rust strings.
Can't find where to start contributing? Drowning in codebases you've never seen? 'Good First Issue' labels exist for exactly this — and they're both a gift for newcomers AND a secret weapon for maintainers. Let me show you both sides of the label.
Scared to make your first PR to an open source project? I was too! Here's how I went from terrified lurker to confident contributor (and you can too).
Think you need to be a coding wizard to contribute to open source? Wrong! Here's how to make your first contribution without accidentally destroying GitHub.