CodeNewbie S13:E2 - How newbies can contribute to open source (Janessa Tran)
Aug 10, 2020
35:18
In this episode, we talk about getting into open source, with Janessa Tran, junior software engineer at Ten Forward Consulting. Janessa talks about being one of a triplet of coders, how contributing to open source early on helped her to level up her dev skills, and what you should look for as a beginner when choosing what open source projects to work on.
Show Links
- Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor)
- Open Source
- Ten Forward Consulting
- Acorns
- The Odin Project
- Ruby on Rails
- Node.js
- Python
- Learn Python the Hard Way
- Lorenz system
- #100DaysOfCode
- Data for Democracy
- Ruby Together
- Ruby Me
- if me
- A Beginner’s Guide to Contributing to Open Source
- Hacktoberfest
- GitHub
- Ruby for Good
- Diaperbase
Janessa Tran
Janessa is a data analyst turned software engineer who was inspired to make a transition in her career upon discovering the Ruby programming language and community. She is a triplet, the daughter of Vietnamese refugees, and a first-generation college graduate who currently works at Ten Forward Consulting as a Junior Software Engineer in Madison, WI.