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Contributing to open source repositories

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Contributing to open source repositories

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- Employers and other interested parties are increasingly looking at an applicant's online footprint to see what things they are interested in and what experience they have. GitHub is a great way to show the online world that you are interested in a specific technology field and that you have experience with that particular coding language or platform. It's a great way to give yourself more of an online presence, not only with a portfolio, but by contributing to public repositories. I want to walk you through GitHub's open source projects and the benefits of contributing to them. Open source projects on GitHub are repositories that the owners have made available for free public use. With the free GitHub account, you can choose to contribute to those repositories by enhancing them with code that you write. Contributing to open source repositories is a great way to show that you are interested in learning new skills and…

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