I submitted a PR for Wesnoth on one of their “good first issues” for my first PR, and got ridiculed by one of their members; condescendingly talked down to me but never told me why my code failed. It disheartened and embarrassed me. Learned a lot from that; namely that people aren’t any different in the industry.
I’m sorry you had to go through that. I don’t think that experience is representative of contributing to open source projects but you will encounter these types of responses to your pull requests sometimes. The important thing is to not let yourself get discouraged. Development is a tough field to get into but IMHO it’s nowhere near as tough and heartless as a lot of other fields out there. Keep pushing.
That's why we have billions of so called "devs" writing by hands same things 50 times in a row and never questioning why on Earth they have to manually manage useless states in React and Angular. 😂
My main concern is how to survive all of these financial and political crisis, especially in light of the US political power scuffle. The government has really called things more difficult for its citizens, and we can't sit back and bear all the consequences of the bad governance.
This 2024 I no longer depend on the government or salary to survive. "Of course, trading is a safer way to earn more money now because I have earned up to 352,000 thousand US dollars recently. Work will only pay your bills, business will make you earn." You are rich, but trade makes and keeps you rich, the future is inevitable...
It is horrible when the consequences of being “wrong” about social or political issues are more severe for an engineer than the consequences of being wrong about the engineering. This is how you devolve into a terrorized low tech peasantry. It is the exact opposite of the culture that made America uniquely prosperous and suitable for tech.
Hey now the event is running named hacktoberfest Where we can contribute, But I faced issues when trying to set up a project locally, nobody is speaking about it, Please make a video on how to setup large codebase project on local machine specially for GSOC
Ya I don't agree whatsoever. I am on my 3rd degree in CS and I have learned A TON through every single degree. Self-taught programmers are always worse than me at everything because they didn't learn the underlying mechanics of CS.
Yes its true. Degree helps a lot laying the foundations. And foundations are the most important. Then, above the foundations you build, I would say getting a good internship is the best, because then you learn how stuff work in the real world.
it is true. Programming is easy, that is something you should teach yourself in private if you are passionate enough. But teaching yourself math? I think we all agree that sitting at home and teaching yourself math for yourself seems a little bit ridiculous. Being forced to do that by university gives you a lot of insight beyond just typing a few lines. Math and the understanding behind the computer are very crucial to make right decisions. CS degree alone might not be better than a guy who self-taught himself with courses and bootcamps, but a guy with a cs degree and practical experience is miles beyond that self-taught guy