Vincent's coding journey

If you have followed my previous Hacktoberfest contributions you would know where this one's going. Previously on my third issue, I have tried to improve the performance of a program which didn't go well because the owner of the repo didn't want to use global variables, that is why my fifth issue will help him remove the existing global variables.

My fourth PR was based on the previous repo that I have worked on. I chose this project because of three things. I was familiar with what it does and the code. It is a small project and that there was lots that can be improved. I created an issue to give more details on the README for the users and for the future developers to use. Details on what is needed to run and the expectations.

This issue I created was suggested by a nice guy(Nate) who already finished 5 PR's. The idea was to increase the performance of a robot program. Instead of using the size method, a global variable would be used to keep track of the remaining robots for a quicker comparison when needed. This program was in C++ which made it very easy for me to read since that is one of my strength. The owner of the repo later told me that he didn't want to use global variables.

My second hacktoberfest issue was the fastest I have ever started an issue. I didn't have to look for it, it came to me! The issue was based on my previous contribution to filerjs . Apparently, the test case that I have created for filer had no method implementation! The reason I didn't pick up on that when I created the test was because I forgot to add the file to the test index. Although the code compiled perfectly with no errors, the test was not actually being tested.

For my first Hacktoberfest related issue and Pull Request(PR), I was looking for a simple documentation issue to start off easy and ramp up later on. I came across one that I found interesting which was modifying an example in the README file . Since it was a README file, I thought the coding language wouldn't matter for me when I picked it to work on. I found that the example they wanted was quite similar to the method that was already implemented. So I sent a PR to update the file and the owner of the repo wanted the example to be executable. At that moment I knew it was going to be harder than I expected because the code was written in Python, which I had not used before. So starting like a beginner, I had to search for ways to compile and execute Python code. But I keep running into websites that say Python code "doesn't need to be compiled" or "automatically compiled" so that got me confused for a day or two. I ended up with downloading different softwa...