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S13:E2 - How newbies can contribute to open source (Janessa Tran)

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4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Just because you might be new to coding, doesn't mean you can't contribute to open source

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Code Movie podcast.

0:07.2

We talk to people on their coding journey in hopes of helping you on yours.

0:10.9

I'm your host, Saron, and today we're talking about getting into open source,

0:15.4

with Janessa Tran, junior software engineer at 10 Forward Consulting.

0:19.8

It exposed me to a lot of different things that I feel like are hard to get when you're

0:25.5

working on projects by yourself.

0:27.4

Janessa talks about being one of a triplet of coders, how contributing to open source

0:31.6

early on helped her to level up her dev skills and what you should look for as a beginner

0:36.4

when choosing what open source

0:37.8

projects to work on.

0:39.3

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Shopify.com slash setup. Thanks so much for being here. Yeah, thanks so much for having me.

1:19.8

So you are actually a part of a triplet of sisters who are all developers, which is really cool.

1:25.2

What kind of work do each of you do? Yeah. So it's really

1:28.9

funny that we're all developers, actually, because none of us really knew what computer

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