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Thank you so much for your interest in contributing!. All types of contributions are encouraged and valued. Please go through this guidelines before making your contribution! It will make it a lot easier for us maintainers to make the most of it and smooth out the experience for all involved.

We look forward to your contributions.

Before you contribute

Before you contribute to our repository, you must sign up for:

Let’s Contribute

Fork this repository.

You can make a copy of the project to your account. This process is called forking a project to your Github account. On Upper right side of project page on Github, you can see -

Click on fork to create a copy of project to your account. This creates a separate copy for you to work on.
Clone the forked repository to your local machine.

You have forked the project you want to contribute to your github account. To get this project on your development machine we use clone command of git.
```
$ git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE/Hacktoberfest.git
```
Now you have the project on your local machine.
Create a new branch for a feature or bugfix provided in the Issues section of the repository.

Usually, all repositories have a main branch that is regarded to be stable, and any new features should be developed on a separate branch before being merged into the main branch. As a result, we should establish a new branch for our feature or bugfix and go to work on the issue.
```
$ git checkout -b BRANCH_NAME_HERE
```
This will create a new branch out of master branch. Now start working on the problem and commit your changes.
Add the changes to your repository.
```
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "COMMIT_MESSAGE_HERE"
```
The first command adds all the files or you can add specific files by removing “.” and adding the file names. The second command gives a message to your changes so you can know in future what changes this commit makes.
Push code and create a pull request. And that’s all.

You now have a new branch containing the modifications you want in the project you forked. Now, push your new branch to your remote github fork.
```
$ git push origin BRANCH_NAME_HERE
```
Now you are ready to help the project by opening a pull request means you now tell the project managers to add the feature or bug fix to original repository. You can open a pull request by clicking on green icon -

Remember your upstream base branch should be main and source should be your feature branch. Click on create pull request and add a name to your pull request. You can also describe your feature.

What you can contribute in this repo?

You can add your own project or a blog explaining a topic related to the selected languages or framework.
There are various topics like Android Development, Web Development(Front end, Back end), Graphic Designing, UI/UX, Data Structures and Algorithms, Python, SQL, NOSQL and etc. You can contribute in them
You can contribute directly on the issues that we have created for you.
You can modify previous information if you feel you can do better.

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Before you contribute

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What you can contribute in this repo?

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