How to Make Your First Contribution to an Existing Project as a New Software Engineer

Tips on getting started fast, smooth, and on the right foot

Emilio Ramirez
Published in
8 min readNov 20, 2020

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Working with an existing codebase is no easy task. When you’re first learning how to code, it’s much easier to implement everything you know from scratch than building on someone else’s work. However, that’s exactly what…

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Emilio Ramirez
The Startup

I like to share stuff I find exciting. That’s usually around things like startups, books I’ve read, life in Mexico, and life in general.