HacktoberFest Beginner Project

Make your first contribution for Hacktoberfest in the simplest way.

This is an open source project on Github. Here you can practice making your first Pull Request to a public repository before doing a more complex contribution.

This public repository is open to all members of the Github Community.

Hacktoberfest Details

Hacktoberfest is a month long programming celebration from October 1st - October 31st sponsored by Digital Ocean and Github to get people involved in open source. Create your Hacktoberfest account with your Github sign in information and begin making your contributions.

https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/

How You Can Contribute to This Project

Formatting to follow for profile and hello_world is below under Format

Add your Profile Page in the respective Profiles-Year directory
In your preferred language create a simple Hello World script in the respective Hello-World-Year directory

Make a Pull Request for your changes and wait to be merged.

How to Begin

Fork this repository
Clone your fork down to your local environment

git clone https://github.com/your-username/hacktoberfest17-beginner.get

Create a branch

git checkout -b your-branch-name

Make your addition to the Profile and Hello World directories
Commit and Push your changes

git add .
git commit -m 'commit message'
git push origin your-branch-name

Create a new Pull Request from your forked repository, click the New Pull Request button located at the top of your repository
Wait for you PR to be reviewed and merge approval
Star this repository if you had fun!

Format

* Profile Page

Name of File: FirstName_LastName.md

# First and Last Name

### Location
Your City, State, Country

### Associated Organization
- List of Associated Organizations
- List of Associated Organizations

### Academics
- List of Education
- List of Education

### Non-Coding Interests
- List of interests
- List of interests

### Why Do You Love Coding?
Your statement of why you love Coding

### Your Favorite Animal
Whatever that may be

### Your Favorite Dessert
Whatever that may be

* Hello World Page

Please create your own file and add your hello world script. Do not alter other user's hello world scripts. Thank you

Name of File: hello_world_firstinitiallastname.preferred language written

example: hello_world_mkowalski.rb

// AUTHOR: Malind Kowalski
// LANGUAGE: Ruby
// GITHUB: https://github.com/mekowalski

puts 'Hello, World!'

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