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jpxayhijta
8,353 PointsNan
Nan
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Luke Pettway
16,593 PointsThis is good advice Bharat Gehija. I've often found that it really helps to go back and rewatch videos sometimes, especially if I struggle with a certain part. It's also smart to do what you said and put what we learn into practice. Sometimes once I learn something new I'll hop on Github and find some projects that I can help with.
Whitey McCracker
2,029 PointsYes, thank you for your post Bharat Gehija!
I suppose in a way, this post from me is an "answer" although it's actually a question, but you posted your "question" as advice. So... I guess the moderators will let me know if this Jeopardy-like formatting is an issue.
(lol)
I'm wanting to practice coding more. I have finally been exposed to enough HTML and CSS to work on making my own VERY basic projects. Emphasis on 'basic' here, and I use the term 'project' very loosely.
I think it would be awesome to have a job coding web sites, and that would be great and all, but I do currently have a job and I am learning coding because I enjoy it. That said however, ultimately I want to be making my own things. I don't have any idea what for yet, and so I would like some advice on where to start.
Any advice for what I could work on outside of the lessons on Treehouse would be much appreciated!
Luke Pettway; you mentioned helping out with projects on Github. Where would I start with that?
...and anyone else who would like to respond in this thread is welcome to of course. I'm very tired at the moment and may not be writing my ideas clearly, but I think the gist of what I'm trying to convey is getting through.
Whitey McCracker
2,029 PointsOh, I also wanted to say this: although my post seemed as though I wasn't doing research on my OWN on how to find projects ( Like This )
The problem with the Web today is there is SO MUCH INFORMATION!
...so I figured I'd put this question in the Treehouse Forums.
jpxayhijta
8,353 PointsNan
Luke Pettway
16,593 PointsReally the easiest way to get started on Github projects is to find something that you use a lot. For example, I use Foundation on a majority of my projects, and it just so happened that the newest version was being worked on when I asked through Twitter about helping with it. Sure enough they were more than happy to add me to the Zurb team Github and I was able to provide feedback and test out the Beta version.
A lot of projects are pretty open, and all you need to do is look for Issues, and if you find something you can fix, you can submit a pull request and add your changes and push them up to be merged into the project. Sometimes you can recommend a new feature, or simplify code a bit, every little bit helps.
Just go to Github, find your favorite projects, and get to work. You can also do this with other big community projects like WordPress, they don't use Git they use SVN, but the idea is still the same.
Whitey McCracker
2,029 PointsThank you very much for your prompt responses. It's greatly appreciated.
Luke Pettway: From what I've seen on Github - and what is also probably the case - is that I don't know enough coding to be of any use. (yet.) I don't use a lot of anything at the moment, so I'm hoping to get to that place eventually. But I will certainly keep an eye on Github to see when there might be something I could help out with.
Bharat Gehija: I don't know yet what I would like to work on to practice. For at least a few months now, I've been able to take other basic websites that are made in the Treehouse lessons and style them in my own way, but when it comes to starting from nothing but a Notepad++ document, I don't know where to start. I have done a few things from W3Schools in the past, until I had heard that they... well, teach rather out-of-date techniques.
I think I'll start my own General Discussion thread, as this has become more about me than the original post probably intended. Thanks again.
Luke Pettway
16,593 PointsSometimes all you need to know is if something looks right, works correctly, or doesn't work at all. Towards the end of F6, most of the issues were requests to test a new feature and provide feedback or bug findings so you could always start there :) .
jpxayhijta
8,353 PointsNan