Why Junior Developers Should Contribute to Open-Source Software?
Open-source software (OSS) is a rapidly growing industry that provides many benefits to the individuals and businesses who use it, as well as to its programmers.
However, for developers contributing to open-source software, it provides many valuable advantages and opens doors to a number of highly lucrative and rewarding opportunities.
While each person may have different individual motivations, here is a list of some of the most common reasons why developers should contribute to open-source software:
- Improve Coding Skills
- Gain Early Experience
- Increase Community and Peer Recognition
- Greater Job Prospects
- improve the project for other developers
- Earn money
- Improve Software on a User and Business Level.
- Learn to collaborate
For the junior android developers that want to learn how to collaborate to the world of open source just check out the little tutorial I did to help you kickstart your first PR(Pull Request ), follow the link below
Credit to https://clearcode.cc/blog/why-developers-contribute-open-source-software/
