Mark Seemann has an excellent blog post with ten tips for making a better pull request to contribute to open source projects. Contributing to open source projects is a great way to help the open source community, and to get experience working on large software projects. However it can sometimes be confusing and scary when you’re trying to send changes to a project. Mark’s post has a great set of tips for making sure your changes are as easy as possible for a maintainer to review and integrate.
Adafruit is a strong believer in open source and hosts many libraries on GitHub. If you’re contributing to Adafruit’s libraries be sure to check out Mark’s post for useful tips!
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, or even use Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for MakeCode, CircuitPython, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
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