First Mission: Contributors Page

[coni2k]

[UPDATE] Backbone is our active project at the moment, to continue to "First Mission", please visit:
forCrowd/Backbone#13

Project links:
https://backbone.forcrowd.org
https://github.com/forCrowd/Backbone/

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This is an experimental attempt to help you to get familiar with our project and make your first pull request.

Follow this tutorial on our wiki to get started:
https://github.com/forCrowd/WealthEconomy/wiki/First-Mission

[shilpavijay]

Thanks. This helps!

[nakanoer]

I really appreciated this First Mission, as I am very new to coding and open source projects. I am currently taking a class in open source, which is why I ended up looking for something to contribute to in the first place. You really made my first pull request very easy and unintimidating. I had a couple of hiccups along the way, but looking back, it's probably because I really don't know enough about the programming world just yet and also because I have never used Visual Studio and Node.

The instructions for both the "Getting Started" page as well as the "First Mission" page were very clear and easy to follow. I got caught up on the last step 8/8 on the "Getting Started" page because I didn't realize you had to use the Node command console to enter the npm start command, so I attempted to enter it into Visual Studio, which gave me error results. I then attempted to enter npm install into Visual Studio, which was also rejected. I eventually figured out that you needed to use Node, and from there everything was fine.

The other thing I had a bit of an issue with, which caused me to have to go back and re-submit my request was that for some reason, the first time I tried to go to http://localhost:4200/app/contributors, it wouldn't load, so I was unable to see the changes I had made and it ended up that in the experience column, it looked like I had 2017+ years of experience! The following day, when I looked at it, I realized my error and had to go back to correct it. I learned not to rush my requests through and to check carefully before submitting.

[coni2k]

Hi @nakanoer,

Thank you so much for your feedback, it is the most detailed reply I got so far! Appreciated.

Now I'm looking at the instructions; I will add more details about "npm install" part to make it more clear.

I will also re-install the app from scratch to see whether there is any issue with "contributors" page.

For the rest, I'm glad to hear that it went smooth.

I develop applications with ASP.NET & Angular stack. If you have any questions about these technologies, I'd be happy to help.

Recently I started developing another version of Wealth, that is called Backbone, an online public API. It's again very experimental and on a very early stage, but if you can't find anything else, you are welcome to contribute to that one, just send me a message.
https://backbone.forcrowd.org
https://github.com/forCrowd/Backbone

Open source & programming journey is long and exciting. Hopefully you can find interesting projects that will let you grow and keep enjoying it.

Thanks again!