✨ My HactoberFest Journey ✨
Tags: hacktoberfest
Published: 2020-11-07 18:44:22

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### A step towards Dev and HactoberFest ✨✨
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Hello!! 👋 This is Aastha Singh, A geek and a Passionate Coder. Currently I'm in my 3rd year of B.Tech. There has been a lot of Buzz about HactoberFest since September on almost every Social Media and that's how I came across HactoberFest. I did know about Dev community though. Recently I decided to join Dev Community and give it a shot as well. As of now I'm confident that I can contribute meaningful projects to such type of platforms
### Background ✨✨

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I would say that I'm not actually new to open source. In the past I committed to GitHub whenever I got time. I tried to keep up with it but in the middle of all the chaos of Engineering its hard to keep along. I've been consistent in Coding. As I'm from Information Technology, Coding is like staple food to us, Basic and everywhere.

### Progress ✨✨

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I've successfully made all the PRs and even got the rewards. The process of contributing to open source has been amazing for me. 

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### Contributions ✨✨

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So, my contributions flow like this:
  1. The First Repository that I contributed to was 
      ImanMohi/RTU-DigitalLibrary 
     This contribution was about Huffman Coding. I added the 
     Source Code in C++ as well as a Snapshot of the Output. 
    https://github.com/Aastha3348/RTU-DigitalLibrary/tree/master/C%2B%2B%20Programs/Huffman%20Coding

2.  Secondly I contributed to the same repository ImanMohi/RTU-DigitalLibrary. This contribute was made to the ReadMe explaining the guidelines to contribute new resources into the repository.
https://github.com/Aastha3348/RTU-DigitalLibrary/blob/master/README.md

3. Next, I contributed to Skywalkers-24/Hactoberfest-2020-native.
I contributed my Source Code of 'Inverted pyramid using numbers' in Python3 along with the Snapshot of Output for better understanding.
https://github.com/Aastha3348/Hactoberfest-2020-native/tree/master/Python_programming/Inverted%20pyramid%20using%20numbers

4. My Last contribution was to emmalearnscode/guide-to-HF.
This was contribution was a collection of courses for beginners to start Python from Scratch.
https://github.com/Aastha3348/mega-course-recommender/blob/Branch1/AasthaSingh.md

5. This was an additional contribution to emmalearnscode/guide-to-HF. Here, I added a code written in html and css to describe my HacktoberFest experience.
https://github.com/Aastha3348/guide-to-HF/blob/master/experiences/Aastha.html




### Reflections ✨✨
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Initially I wasn't much active on GitHub as I wasn't quite familiar with the platform. However, during HactoberFest I was so determined to be a part of the Fest that I not only created PRs but also did so many commits on GitHub. I learnt about so many new things about Open Source and its workflow. This was a very good opportunity for me to contribute to such good repos and get acknowledged. HacktoberFest has been great for me. Looking forward to participate next year too.

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