Abdul's OSD600 Open Source Journey

Networking on Slack The first step in getting by code reviewed and tested was speaking to my peers in our Slack server. At first it was a little intimidating to post my code to be reviewed because I was nervous about being judged however after seeing how helpful my peers could be I was excited to see what they could help me with. And vice versa, I was excited to see what I could help others with. Overall, taking the first step and posting my repo and seeing my peers give feedback was exciting.  Getting Reviewed    My Repo I had a couple people point out issues and provide helpful solutions with my code. First I had Michael Brackett find some grammatical mistakes in my README file as well as provide me useful insight and resources into the differences between the request and urllib modules in python. This allowed to get a second look at my README to make sure there were no mistakes and give me a chance to make a more informed decision on which module to use. Next...

 Hello Professor David Humphrey and fellow classmates, my name is Abdul and I am in my 5th semester of CPA at Seneca. I am taking OSD600 and I am interested in taking this course and learning about and experiencing open source development. Throughout my time in the CPA program, I have been able to learn a lot about programming and software development, however most of the work has been in a controlled, structured and individual environment and with this opportunity in OSD600 I believe it will be exciting to be able to apply the knowledge and skills, I have learned in a more collaborative environment with real world applications. So I am really looking forward to meeting my fellow classmates in this class and learning and working together on some interesting projects.  As we all know its been a wild year with lots of unprecedented things happening with COVID-19 but I like to see the positive in things and I feel like these unknown times will bring about a lot of innovation...