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Welcome to Free-Programming-Books!

We welcome new contributors; even those making their very first Pull Request (PR) on GitHub. If you’re one of those, here are some resources that might help:

• About pull requests
• Creating a pull request
• GitHub Hello World
• YouTube - GitHub Tutorial For Beginners
• YouTube - How To Fork A GitHub Repo and Submit A Pull Request
• YouTube - Markdown Crash Course

Don’t hesitate to ask questions; every contributor started with a first PR. So… why not join our large, growing community.

Click to see users vs. time graphs.

Even if you’re an experienced open source contributor, there are things that might trip you up. Once you’ve submitted your PR, GitHub Actions will run a linter, often finding little issues with spacing or alphabetization. If you get a green button, everything is ready for review; but if not, click “Details” under the check that failed to find out what the linter didn’t like, and fix the problem adding a new commit to the branch from which your PR was opened.

Finally, if you’re not sure that the resource you want to add is appropriate for Free-Programming-Books, read through the guidelines in CONTRIBUTING (translations also available).