First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

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First Contributions

This project aims to simplify and guide the way beginners make their first contribution. If you are looking to make your first contribution, follow the steps below. If you’re not comfortable with the command line, there are tutorials using GUI tools.

Prerequisites

• If you don’t have git installed on your machine, install it.

Fork the repository

1. Click the Fork button at the top of the repository page.
2. This creates a copy of the repository in your own GitHub account.

Clone the repository

1. Go to your forked repository on GitHub.
2. Click the Code button, select the SSH tab, and copy the URL.
3. Open a terminal and run:

git clone 

Replace “ with the URL you just copied.

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