Over the last few months, I’ve been trying to improve my coding skills. I’ve had a wide range of advice from people, and a lot of it has been excellent. Such as reading the code of others which is a great piece of advice, and it’s one I thoroughly advise.
However one I do struggle with is “get involved with an open source project”. Which sounds great. And I would do it. Except for a few things.
- I don’t have that much confidence in my ability to write code. So I’d be waaay to cautious to join a team.
- I don’t have confidence that I’ll know a given programming language well enough to be useful.
- There’s nothing out there that leaps and grabs my imagination. I know that sounds overly harsh, but I read through stuff and go…”I’m not sure I could do any of that.” (Again heading back to point 1…)
In a nutshell, it’s a very daunting thing for a newbie to get involved with an open source project. Or am I completely wrong? If I am, I would welcome suggestions as to which projects to get involved with, and ones that welcome those who are still learning their trade. (I’ve only been a software developer full time for two years, so still in the early stages…)
