Intro to Open Source

 Hi everyone, I am Palak Chawla, a student of Bachelors of Software Development Degree in Seneca College. I am a little bit more than halfway through my degree. I wanted to learn something new and useful for my career. Hence, I left my job as a Mobile software Tester in India and came to learn development here in Seneca. After a while, I felt I needed to take a very useful course for my professional option which will actually help me in my professional life, and not do it for just the sake of doing it. Fortunately, this course DPS909 which is about Open Source came highly recommended by my friends. And I believe if I want to work as a Developer, I need to start working more with the GitHub and start my journey of working with the community with my inputs in code and other things.

 I am residing in Toronto , Canada right now. I am taking this course with online platform teaching medium. To be honest, the first week was really hectic for me, as I was not sure what to do, when to do, how to do. It was really overwhelming for me as every course is spread on different platforms other than Blackboard this semester. It was hard for me to keep track of deadlines and classes etc. But I am working on it and making a list of deadline due dates, class links etc in this week.

 I am hoping to gain some new confidence in myself with the open source community. I do feel like I should know more about coding and trending technology, different communities such as this one. I came from a testing background, and things are very different in that stream. This will be a good start for me to start as a fresher in the open source community, even as a blogger. This is my very first blog of life-time. Thank you for making me do it. It feels good. I am not sure what kind of repositories I want to work on, I want to explore and go with my excitement flow. I am hoping something with React maybe, but I am not sure. I want to work on React in my upcoming years, and I am trying to start working on my skills.

I went to weekly trending, and found react-challenge  really interesting. It is based on JavaScript, and I was planning on start practising competitive programming on JavaScript and React and this really caught my eye. 

I would try my best to write my weekly blog. It is really fun.