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Getting Involved in Open Source Development
SkyEye
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I have some free time on my hands and heard that a way to get real world programming experience is on an open-source project. I really don't know where to start on this though; how to choose a project that's at my skill level, that sort of stuff. I thought I had a good grasp of C/C++, but I had so much trouble trying to parse code/documentation that wasn't my own that any time I needed to make use of others' work in university it turned out to be a disaster. Any tips on where to start?
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Find something you actually want to improve in a small way, ideally with something on GitHub (super-easy to submit patches by pull requests) and just start hacking.
NodeJS projects are actually pretty easy to get into, and there's currently a lot of Javascript help out there (and a decent whack of demand for web programmers).
Urgh, Sourceforge is terrible.
Search for stuff on GitHub which is doing commits/merges via Github. It's the easiest workflow I've found, and people are way more on the ball about merging things on Github then any other source I've found.