My Hacktoberfest <2020>
Tags: hacktoberfest
Published: 2020-11-08 20:34:49

### __About Me__

Hey there, I am new to this community and I am excited to be a part of it. I came to know about this community through DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest 2020. I am a Tech Enthusiast and love exploring different technology stack. I joined this community to keep myself motivated, inspired and updated. Hope to learn a lot from DEV community. 
In this post I will be Sharing my experience of Hacktoberfest 2020

### __Background__

This year I participated in Hacktoberfest for the first time. It was also my first experience in Open Source Contribution. I have participated in many contest in Codechef and also took part in Google Kickstart a few times. According to me I am a Begginer to Intermediate level coder learning and trying improve each day. I have some grip on Data Structures but I am not a pro in it. I am interested in Data Science field and have done a few courses and projects in this field.

### __Progress__

I am happy to share that I have successfully completed this year's Hacktoberfest with all my 4 PR's merged with the masterbranch of the Repo I contributed to. I have also made an extra PR which is still under the review period but I am quite assured that it will be successful too. As this was my first time participating in Hacktoberfest the contribution I made may not be as good as many others who contributed in big projects but I am happy that I tried and understood Open Source Contribution and learned a lot in the process too. Below you will see the different contributions I made in this Hacktoberfest.

### __Contributions__

The Contributions I made this year were not part of a big project but still made me overjoyed to be able to contribute to this Repos.
I will be listing all my contributions here.

1. Added Course List in *mega-course-reccomender*

    As this was my first time contributing in Open Source I 
    uploaded the best courses links I have done till now in a Mega 
    Course Reccomender Repo.

    Link: https://github.com/arpancodes/mega-course-recommender/pull/90

2. Added a code to an issue in the REPO *cool-code-snippets*.

    Found this issue from the Hacktoberfest Discord Server. In this 
    issue I added a Diamond Square Code in Python. 

    Link: https://github.com/Developer-Students-Club-MAIT/cool_code_snippets/pull/26

3. Added my approach on Image Classification in CIFAR100 dataset in *MachineLearningModels* REPO.

    I found this amazing REPO from Discord server for 
    Hacktoberfest. Here you can get models with basic datasets. In 
    this REPO I added my model on Image Classification and also 
    updated the Readme File with basic informations about my model.
    
    Link: https://github.com/Darknez07/MachineLearningModels/pull/7

4. Added the code of a problem in *Codeforces* REPO.

    In this repo I added a code from codeforces problem "Restore 
    The Permutation by Merger" in Python Language.

    Link: https://github.com/GouravKhunger/CodeForces/pull/9

5. Added my code in *PythonAlgorithms*.

    Here I created my own issue respecting the Contribution 
    guidlines and was later assigned to the issue I created. Then I 
    added my solution in the Leetcode problem "Three Consecutive 
    Odds" in Python Language.

    Link: https://github.com/vJechsmayr/PythonAlgorithms/pull/797

### __Reflections__

Hacktoberfest 2020 was a great experience for me. I learned a lot in this event, made me confident and strong in my abilities. I will definitely be looking forward to next years Hacktoberfest and hope to contribute to many more great projects in the next Hacktborfest event. Hacktoberfest 2020 opened a new door for me and helped me explore open source community. I also want to thank this community and all those are contributing to this community for being so supportive and for being a great teacher to all the new comers. Next I wish to learn more and contribute in better and better open source projects. I am eager to apply in the next **GSoC** and try my best to be a part of it. And I will be grateful for any help I can get from the DEV community. 


**THANK YOU**