A collectively-created website collaboratively created by the Self-Taught Tech Network (STTN) community.
See it live at: STaTioN
👉 Many self-taught developers learn to code by themselves by reading or watching tutorials and coding along with them. Eventually, they will probably strike out and create a few projects.
👉 Many jobs are performed in team settings with many developers who may be working on the same projects. To get this experience outside of a job, open-source projects are the way to go. However, it can be intimidating to get involved with these projects because they are broad and complicated, and often difficult to know what you could contribute.
👉 It is also difficult to know how you could contribute? How do I get my contributions into someone else's project?
STaTioN aims to make this experience beginner friendly. It's a website that allows you to make any kind of contribution, no matter how small or big. Everyone is welcome to contribute anything to the website. Plus, the website is based on vanilla JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. Therefore, getting started shouldn't be complicated and if you are having trouble you can always reach out to us and we will be happy to help.
Here is what you can contribute to this project:
👉 Anything!
Seriously! You can add a link to another website/project you're working on. Make the links pink. Flip a div upside-down. Add stuff to this readme file! Stuck? Have a look at the issues tab and see if anything jumps out at you.
You are encouraged to get involved, make mistakes, and break things.
We're all learning here and like many things in the coding world, you learn best by doing. So do!
There can be a lot to learn when getting involved in open-source projects if you've never contributed before. If you already know some HTML, you should be able to get started here by learning a little bit about Git and Github. Git is version control software, if you do a web search you should find a lot of resources to get you started.
Do you already know about these things? One of our contributors found this handy guide to get you started with forking a repository and creating a pull request. Our CONTRIBUTING.md has some quick steps that could also get you started. If you are comfortable reading documentation, Github is pretty accessible and they have a good section on working collaboratively that is worth a read.
The group on the STTN Discord Server would be quite willing to help you! When you join, just go to the open-source channel and jump in! The whole group exists to learn!
The following people are willing to help you via Twitter as well:
- Jeffrey @radridersdesign
- Michaella @NotMichaella
- Slim @slim-codes
- Chrissy @CodesChrissy
👆 Feel free to add your info here and create a Pull Request to get added!
Don't be a jerk, don't be mean. Everyone here is learning and doing their best. We're here to help and to raise each other. Briefly read the Open Source Etiquette if this is your first time with Open Source