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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/DrBilip on 2023-09-19 19:10:33.

Hey guys, Im a cs student in my 3rd semester and I want to improve my coding skills by contributing to open source. I was looking into a few big open source projects on github, but when reading the CONTRIBUTION.txt I got instantly overwhelmed. There is often soo much I need to do and configure just to build the project!? I sometimes even fail with that, let alone contributing any actual good code. Does anyone have tips how the start is a bit less overwhelming and complicated? I dont want to spend hrs building that container correctly and configuring that file correctly etc. I want to Code!