Officially done with Hacktober. Looking forward to what future has. Hyped af
Tags: opensource
Published: 2020-11-02 04:33:11

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Done. That's it. Wait, that's it? After finishing up with everything this month, I asked myself this question. This month has been extraordinary, probably one of the best month I ever experienced in terms of knowledge gain and learning. Learned lots, like lots, more than I expected. Learned how to contribute to the developmental world without knowing anyone in real life, make random developmental friends from all over the world, gain new skills that you thought you never will learn, etc.

Started of the month of October with a small PR. Wasn't that big of an issue, but was my first time ever working on a project that is not mine but entirely a random person's. Was in charge of making a file structure of the entire project. Waas fun as I completed the task assigned perfectly. 

The 2nd PR followed soon after I was done with the first. This was actually fun to do as I was assigned to deal with UI. My work here was to make any changes/updates to UI if needed. I changed and updated few styles, specially the margins and padding as it was bit broken. Overall, great experience.

My 3rd and 4th PR came in pretty late (3rd was latte, 4th was on time). This is because I had lots of doctors appointment throughout the month and took a break from everything related to internet for some time. That way couldn't help myself uploading and working early on my 3 PR. Hope my professor goes easy on me during markings haha. Aright back to details on my 3rd and 4th PR. My 3rd was related to MongoDB. When I found this issue, I got a sudden burst of curiosity. This is because it's been a while since I dealt with something related to MongoDB. So, I took the issue on my hand and created a PR to the main branch. I created a schema for the teacher model. The 4th PR of mine took me a while as I was assigned to make any changes if possible to latest JavaScript functionality (like optional chaining operator, Async/Await syntax, etc). I updated few of them throughout the entire project. This was a bit more fun than the others because I never knew there was something called optional chaining operator in JavaScript. So, I took the matter on my hand and researched thoroughly on this specific subject, and got what and how it works. Then, I implemented it onto the app and is waiting for reviews (did a PR). 


As you can see/read from the top paragraphs, this month wasn't easy, but it sure was hella fun. Adding to the work above, had 4 midterms/ bunch of labs and assignments due together with it. Did not gain knowledge just on development, but in other subjects too. As I said in the beginning, this month has been super knowledgeable. 

Anyways, this will be my last post related to Hacktoberfest2020. I will be focusing on different tasks now and give regular updates on my developmental journey through blog posts. Till then, thank you all for reading this blog post and keeping up with me. I also want to thank my professor David, for sharing and helping anytime with his knowledge and experience. Learned lots, thank you. I also want to mention 3 specific people that helped me. Tony Vi, Dev, and Paul. They helped me lots since my opensource journey started, so thanks to them too (I know them since semester 1/2, they are my good friends (mentors too)). 


ok ok ok, enough talking, lets finish up things for now. I'll be ending this blog now, so thank you again for your time and keep an eye on my daily blog updates. Till then, See yall.