Abdul's OSD600 Open Source Journey

My Issue/Addition       As I was searching for a new project/repo to contribute too, I just couldnt get over the feeling that my last PR was not complete to my satisfaction and I needed to make some changes to it before I could feel like I was done with it. I decided to create another issue on the repo to address these improvements Creating the Script/Making a Pull Request     I started out by researching the most popular online pc games and finding the servers that are used for most major regions. In my initial script, I was thinking on a more personal level and included only games that I play and that would really limit the usefulness of the script. Once I found as many games as I could, I added their information to the json file I had created to hold the game server information. I then had to modify the script code to accommodate these new games. Afterwards I updated the readme documentation to include the new functionality and made my pull request .  R...

 Introduction     The idea of working on and contributing to an open source was something that caused me a lot of anxiety, seeing how large and in depth most of the repos I was looking at made me feel like I would be of little help or have very little to offer. As this stress kept building I defaulted to procrastinating and avoiding having to find a repo to contribute to. Finally, I decided that I would just need to jump in and begin to build my confidence if I wanted any hope of becoming a better programmer or succeeding in this class. I thought for my first pull request it would be easier to work in a language I was already working on for my release 0.1 and ended up finding a repo that was centered around curating python scripts. So I thought I would try contributing my own script to this repo.  My Issue/Addition          I was playing an online game one night ( league of legends) and I had got into a game and noticed that my latency w...

 Lab 4 - Adding Feautures and Working on Separate Git Branches This week I worked adding and updating features to my CLI url status checker, DeadOrNot . I choose to update my link filtering flags to have my clear option names as all as add a flag for displaying all link information.  Setting up Separate Branches  I started out my creating two issues on github repo detailing the changes I was about to make. Then I made branches to match each of those issues. This has actually helped to maintain an orderly work flow as opposed to the more disorganized style of coding I fall into sometimes while working on projects. Having the issues separated in separate branches made it easier to stay focused on a singular task as opposed to trying to work on multiple things at once which is something I tend to do.  Merging the Branches to Master Branch  I thought the process of combining my changes to the master branch would be more difficult but the process was relatively simpl...

Week 3 OSD600 - Pull Requests   This week, our class took a look at each other's release from the previous week and were tasked with finding an issue or suggesting an improvement/adding a feature and then implementing that fix or improvement in the from of a  pull request. This week I decided to once again took a look at Matt's CheckMyLinks python tool.  Finding Issues or Suggesting an Improvement While reviewing Matt's code, I couldn't really find any issues that I could fix, so I instead I decided to look for ways I could think of to improve his tool. I had a couple ideas but the one I decided to go with was to add an option that would allow the user to save the results of the link check to a text file. I thought this would be useful so the user can have a reference of the results after leaving the command line. I left an issue request on Matt's repo and began to implement the improvement.  Implementing Improvement   The first thing I did when star...

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...

Release 0.1 Introduction  For our first release in OSD600, we were tasked with creating a command line interface(CLI) that would take a file and parse its contents to find URLs and find out the http status of the URL. Once the program finds the status it will output the URLs with either Good, Bad or Unknown depending on the statuses that were found. To create my CLI, I decided to use python. I choose python because its a language I picked up recently and wanted some more practice on and also because I felt it offered many tools and resources that would make this program simple.  GitHub Repo https://github.com/AbdulMAbdi/deadOrNot Usage and Features  - calling the program with a file name or multiple file names will parse through the file(s) and find URLs and then output the links found along with whether its a live, dead or unknown link  -  will output the results in colour, red for a bad link, yellow for an unknown link and green for a good link  -makes us...

 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...