Creating Your First GitHub Contributions with Santosh Yadav on Web Rush #166

Santosh Yadav walks us through how to get started contributing to open source projects, including what is GitHub? What's a fork, clone, push, or pull? How do you know if you can help? And why should you get involved in working on open source?

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const podcast = { 
  episode: 166,
  title: 'Creating Your First GitHub Contributions',
  topics: [ 
    'github', 'coding', 'open source'
  ],
  guest: 'Santosh Yadav'
  hosts: [
    'John Papa', 'Ward Bell'
  ]
};

Recording date: Dec 30, 2021

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Santosh Yadav @SantoshYadavDev

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

• Ionic

Resources:

• GitHub Stars program
• InDepthDev
• NgRx
• Open Learning Initiative
• RxJs Course
• NgRx Course
• YouTube Channel
• This Is Tech Talks
• How to make your first pull request on GitHub
• Create your first pull request
• GitHub docs - creating a pull request
• Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program
• Angular
• Google GDE’s
• Minesweeper
• Git version control system
• GitHub
• Visual Studio Code
• Git cheat sheet
• Desktop for github
• Breeze repo on GitHub
• Fork a repo
• Setup Git (GitHub docs)
• Clone a repository
• Easiest way to edit a repo in github.com with github.dev
• GitHub Codespaces
• Setting guidelines for contributors
• Adding a contributing file
• Breeze JS
• Vikram Subramanian from Google

Timejumps

• 00:53 Wards M1 purchase
• 03:46 Guest introduction
• 04:30 What's GitHub star?
• 06:49 Advice for getting started on open source?
• 08:24 Why should someone get involved in contributing to open source?
• 10:38 Sponsor: Ionic
• 11:18 What's Google Summer of Code?
• 15:22 Git vs GitHub?
• 19:47 What's cloning, pulling, pushing?
• 21:38 Marker 10
• 21:59 How do I make my first contribution to a repo?
• 23:23 What's a fork?
• 24:56 What's a clone?
• 25:34 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 26:39 How do I fix the code?
• 28:23 Editing on GitHub
• 31:03 What are Codespaces?
• 35:43 Using GitHub dev online
• 38:20 What's a pull request?
• 40:36 What got you excited about coding?
• 46:36 What is a Push?

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.