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At Astro Panda Studios, we are app builders, digital architects for solutions, and IT professionals dedicated to turning ideas into reality. We see software as essential to connecting people to each other to tackle big problems together.

We provide custom software development to help our customers focus and improve their internal business practices or get their apps to their own customers and the world.

As a Managed Cloud Services Provider, we also provide businesses with the opportunity to take their on-premise IT infrastructure to the cloud. We work with our customers to provide just the right amount of hands-on expertise they need to succeed securely and efficiently.

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Your First PR [PR Demo]

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Your First PR [PR Demo]

Green light, go code! We've covered the basics of how to use git. Now, it's finally time to bring everything we've been learning together and put the tool to action with a super simple demonstration to walk you through your first Pull Request. From pulling the code to your machine to hitting "Create Pull Request", we'll walk you through step by step so you can be on your way on a fruitful journey as an Open Source developer. This ends our series for Preptember 2020. Good luck with your contributions and we hope to see you around on GitHub! Happy Coding!! 0:00 - Intro 0:18 - Overview of Demo 0:31 - Git - Install the latest version 1:29 - The Demo Repo 2:03 - Cloning the Repo (git clone) 3:24 - Editing with VS Code 3:52 - Changing code and saving to disk 4:41 - Using git status 5:04 - Making a commit (git commit) 5:26 - Pushing changes to remote (git push) 6:20 - Previewing PR changes 6:47 - Making a meaningful PR Description 8:00 - Ship it! Publishing the PR 8:46 - Closing: Hacktoberfest Send Off! ========== MUSIC ========== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Music | Spaceship by Declan DP Watch: https://youtu.be/wthzB3wwxBA License: http://www.declandp.info/license Download/Stream: https://hypeddit.com/link/v55qbp - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Song "Place On Fire" by Creo youtu.be/B605goq7vL8 licensed under creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ◈ follow me ◈ twitter.com/creo_music soundcloud.com/creo www.instagram.com/creoig/ www.facebook.com/creosound ℗ Creo www.creo-music.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Introducing Astro Panda Studios

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Introducing Astro Panda Studios

Astro Panda Studios is here to help you and your business develop innovative solutions and processes to improve your productivity and hop over your roadblocks. We're committed to creating enterprise-grade cloud based solutions to give your business high quality software which comes with low overhead costs in keeping machinery running smoothly. We look forward to talking with you soon about how Astro Panda can help you achieve your goals. www.astropanda.studio

Your First PR [Basics of git]

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Your First PR [Basics of git]

We've covered how to research, discover, and examine Open Source projects to select fun and fulfilling ways to be involved; now we'll give you the basic tools for making changes to the code and submitting it for a Pull Request. Every developer needs to know the basics of source control, to keep track of changes and make those changes available for review. Today we'll be discussing git and some of the basic commands to jumpstart your contributor's workflow in shipping code. If you're looking for more in depth information on git, make sure to go to https://www.git-scm/docs. ================================= Here's an outline of what we cover today: 0:00 - Intro 0:23 - What git is 1:14 - No Code real-world example of git 1:55 - How to use git 2:24 - git init 2:51 - git clone 3:19 - git add 4:05 - git commit 4:29 - git push 4:59 - Explanation of branching 5:35 - "forking" a git repo 6:30 - Why use a fork vs a branch? Happy Coding! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Music | Spaceship by Declan DP Watch: https://youtu.be/wthzB3wwxBA License: http://www.declandp.info/license Download/Stream: https://hypeddit.com/link/v55qbp - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Your First Open Source Project { Part 2 }

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Your First Open Source Project { Part 2 }

With a list of topics or issues you think would be fun to code for, let's dive in to that list and pick out the ones that will be most rewarding. We'll give you the tools to know whether a project will be a good fit for you! 0:00 - Intro 0:49 - Is the project actually Open Source? 1:23 - Open Source licenses 2:15 - Are the maintainers positive and responsive? 3:35 - Contributors and Members 4:36 - Is the project live? 5:37 - Finding direction on what to build 7:02 - The "help wanted" tag 7:37 - looking for the README and CONTRIBUTING files Happy Coding! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Music | Spaceship by Declan DP Watch: https://youtu.be/wthzB3wwxBA License: http://www.declandp.info/license Download/Stream: https://hypeddit.com/link/v55qbp - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Your First Open Source Project { Part 1 }

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Your First Open Source Project { Part 1 }

When you first begin your journey as an open-source developer, you may be asking yourself questions like: "How do I find open source projects?" "How can I tell if an app is open source?" "How do I write open source code?" "How do I know what needs work in an open source project?" If you've asked those questions, then this 2 part series is right for you. We'll be exploring what contributions are and where to start so that the time you put in to your open source projects will be impactful. In this first part, Turner, will walk you through how to blaze your own trail into Open Source territory and how to discover some of your first projects. Here are the topics he covers: 0:00 - Intro 0:08 - What it means to contribute 0:25 - How you can contribute 0:48 - Contributing with Pull Requests 0:59 - What is a Pull Request? 1:15 - Playing your part on an Open Source team -------------------- 2:05 - First steps to finding projects 2:27 - Guiding questions for picking contribution topics 2:53 - Researching your topics to find OSS projects 4:19 - Finding the languages a project is built in --------------------- 4:50 - LF Energy - Example of real world application of OSS projects 6:00 - Finding the GitHub repo for a project when it is not listed on the project's website We hope you all have a great time digging in to your first open source projects (or perhaps some new projects). Happy Coding! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Music | Spaceship by Declan DP Watch: https://youtu.be/wthzB3wwxBA License: http://www.declandp.info/license Download/Stream: https://hypeddit.com/link/v55qbp - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -