I want to participate in Hacktoberfest but I don’t know what I want to contribute to :/ I’m still very new to open source so when I stumble into what they want me to add but immediately I get intimidated.

@M1sf3t I am new to it

@M1sf3t it’s not the open source part I’m intimidated by the projects. No matter how big or small I’m not used to messing with other programmers code, and there’s also the part where I’m still not all that great with git but I’m GITting a little better with it.

There’s also usually libraries I’m not good with or have zero experience with and I don’t know what to do, and just there are also some that I can’t add on to because the project doesn’t even initially work when I run it (not all just one that I tried today) and also bigger projects that have multiple folders of program files confuse me and I don’t even know how to run them (sometimes it depends) or how to add on to them or what I can do.

There’s just so much against me 😅

@M1sf3t I try to find small ones but like for instance one simple one I was really confident I could add to didn’t even work and it wasn’t spitting out an error because of the poor excuse for a try except setup and I don’t even know what kind of error I should be trying to solve. Although that’s also just on python I guess but still I don’t know what I’m supposed to look out for

Start with something simple, like a typo in the documentation, then maybe some extra documentation... then you fix a tiny bug... then a bigger bug... then just add that tiny feature someone want...

I’ve been a developer for 20 years, and my first public PRs were typos... a couple of months ago I added a kissing feature to Rails 6.0

@M1sf3t I’m definitely gonna keep searching but as of today it was no progress

No need to be ashamed of fixing typos or documentation, it's just as important as contributing code.
You can start with that.