First time open source contribution with hacktoberfest2023
Tags: hack23contributor, hacktoberfest23, hacktoberfest, beginners
Published: 2023-10-26 05:25:27

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### Intro
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I am undergrad student from dhaka. For course works I have experienced different technologies and made small projects and I was not happy as none of my projects have any real life production value. I came out to know about hacktoberfest back in 2021 and it was overwhelming for me so far. This year I decided to do something different and push myself to this and I have made 8 successful merged contributions. few of them are already live projects. I am feeling good and looking forward to development and opensource contribution. 
this is my github profile link: [ISHAN-NAHID](https://github.com/ishan-nahid)


### Highs and Lows
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As i said before it was overwhelming for me before. I had issues with GIT, i had few mistakes during made PR's but maintainers were so cool about that. They find out my errors and made me understand how to do things. 

### Growth
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I always loved technologies but somehow I always afraid of web development for few reasons. And I never did use GIT on regular basis. Throughout hacktoberfest I think I overcome my fear about web development. now I know the project cycle and now I am used to with git. this is now 22 days streak. 

### List of my accepted contributions
1. [Real Time Currency Converter](https://github.com/Prodigy-InfoTech/Web-Development-Projects/pull/18) : I have made it with third-party API. I have never used API in projects before. So, this was new here.  
2. [Content and fixed bug](https://github.com/NSCC-BPIT/NSCC-BPIT-Website/pull/262) : I have added content for their website. Contents were on comitative programming. and they need to some changes in their web pages. I have resolved those. 
3. [Resourceful contents with changes in code](https://github.com/NSCC-BPIT/NSCC-BPIT-Website/pull/325) : They needed more contents. so I have added them and added few fields in code for new resources.
4. [Precision Handler for calculator](https://github.com/sanskarmalkhede/calculator/pull/10) : They needed handle precision points according to user choice. They were unable to do that. so I have changes their code. 
5. [Solution for OJ problems](https://github.com/codewithdev/C-plus-plus-Algorithms/pull/148) : They needed solutions for problems of different online judges. As I did comitative programming for three years. It was my cup of tee. I jumped in and solved excellent problems and added solutions as they needed. 
6. [Guess the number](https://github.com/Prodigy-InfoTech/Web-Development-Projects/pull/83) : This is a fun game based on binary search algorithm understanding. User need to guess the number using some command. This was fun one.
7. [Hand-written-digit-recognizer](https://github.com/Prodigy-InfoTech/Machine-Learning-Projects/pull/26) : As a fourth year student I am doing ML. I have made it for their need but at the same time I have learnt many topics. 
8. [Bug Fixed for NSCC-BPIT-Website](https://github.com/NSCC-BPIT/NSCC-BPIT-Website/pull/406) This is a real live project. I have seen some bug in their website. and informed them, they assigned it to me and I have solved their issues. 

I know none of these are huge impactful PR's. But I enjoyed the journey. 
Best wishes to everyone, specially for those who are new to this type of open source contribution program. 
Specially thanks to @hacktoberfest community and @dev.to community for this amazing opportunity.