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Here i come Hacktoberfest

An amazing opportunity has appeared for me, giving me the chance to get involved in the open-source community. Its Hacktoberfest in a few days and I'm super excited to get my hands wet with some code! Hackertoberfest is an event hosted by Digital Ocean every October to get people involved and contribute to open source projects. As a beginner in the realm of open source, I will be participating in this event to reach the two goals I have set for myself.

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Goals

Git

The first goal is learning more about how to use git. If you have been reading my previous blogs, I'm new to using Git and I have been learning the basics for over the past few weeks. But I feel like there's still more to learn and experience with Git. Participating in this event will help me utilizes that and help me become proficient in it. 

C# & TypeScript

The second goal is to learn a new programming language. My focus will be on C# and Typescript, two languages that I have briefly touched before but I still consider myself a novice in these languages. During this event, I will focus on working on projects that are developed with or on C# or Typescript to help me improve my understanding of both languages.

  

Projects and Issues

As I began searching for projects to work on during Hacktoberfest, I started to get overwhelmed. There are many great projects to work with but I was finding a hard time finding issues that I can contribute to with the knowledge base I have. In order not to swamp myself with many tasks, i decided to pick projects that are developed in C# or TypeScript and start on small issues. This will help me get familiarized with the project and the code.  

Tackling the following issues:   
  1. Increase variable form width to 100%
  2. Can we give better error messages on invoked accessors?
  3. Update VS Code from Command Palette


                      

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