My First Hacktoberfest
Tags: hacktoberfest, beginners
Published: 2020-10-28 17:48:56

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### [Introduction]
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My name is Muhammad Adil. I am a Computer Science student currently pursuing my Bs CS degree from UET,Lahore. I am a passionate Front End developer(Vue.js) and Desktop Developer(C++).
I decided to join Dev Community because one of our DSC Leads told us that Dev Community is a social media platform for Developers and every developer should be a part of this community.

### Background

<!-- Are you brand new to open source? What about coding in general? Tell us about how you got here -->
I have been coding for around two years now and still I was unaware of what Open Source is, untill last year in 2019 when I joined DSC(Developers Student Clubs) community and I came to know about Open-Sourcing and Github. I was very fascinated by the idea of sharing your code online and I started using Git and Github. 

### Progress

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"I love coding, its my passion" but I hesitated to participate in the "Hacktoberfest 2019" and thought whether I am good enough to participate in the Event. Finally, this year I participated in the "Hactoberfest" and completed the challenge. This gave me the confidence to contribute more to the open-source community.   
### Contributions

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The contributions I made in this Hactoberfest are: 
* A Protfolio design template (https://github.com/Muhammad-Adil-arch/website-for-company/tree/master/Muhammad-Adil-arch_%2310) 
I chose this project because really like to try different designs for protfolios.

* A covid-19 stats web app (https://github.com/Muhammad-Adil-arch/Covid-19-Stats)
I chose this project because I had seen many similar web  applications and I wanted to try one.

* A simple Contact Management System in C++ (https://github.com/Muhammad-Adil-arch/Contribute-to-HacktoberFest2020/tree/main/Projects/Contact%20Management%20System)
I chose this project because I really like to create Console and GUI desktop Applications.

* A Simple C++ Function to swap the values without using temporary variable (https://github.com/Muhammad-Adil-arch/Hacktoberfest-2020/blob/main/Programs/Swap.cpp)
### Reflections
<!-- Overall, how has your Hacktoberfest 2020 experience been? If you’re a first-timer, will you participate again? What have you learned? Have you made any interesting connections? What is your next step in open source?  -->
Overall, my Hactoberfest experience was really great. I learned alot new things like how to clone a repository and then contribute in it. This event also showed me that there is alot more things that I need to learn about the latest web and desktop technologies. 
Since it was my first hacktoberfest, I will surely participate next year. 
Before, Hacktoberfest I hardly had any followers and now I have around 11 followers and I am very happy with it.
For next step, I really want to contribute for the Vue.js Community as the community is growing and it still needs help to grow into a big Open-Source Community like React.

 Thanks for this great experience.