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Contents

1. Before start
2. Target Audience
3. Basic Requirements
4. Something Need to know First
5. Start
6. Several Main Methods of Learning Software Development
7. Why Open-source is Helpful
8. Choosing a Language
9. Basic Skills You Should Have
10. On Development Tools 1. Classification of Development Tools 1. References
11. Select an Open-source Project
12. Where to Find Open-source Projects
13. What Kind of Open-source Projects are Suitable for Beginners
14. Highly Recommended Open-source Projects
15. Hello World
16. Methods of Downloading SC 1. On Source Control and Version Control 1. Find SC of Early Open-source Projects 1. Whirlwind Introduction to SVN, Git and Mercurial 1. Way to get SC Based on Package Management
17. Make It to Run 1. For Ruby users 1. For PHP users 1. For Java users 1. For Python users 1. For JavaScript users 1. For C/C++ users
18. Overcome the Problems You May Encounter
19. Understanding the Source Code
20. Static Understanding 1. Directory Structure 1. Package Name and File Name 1. Class Name, Method Name and Variable Name 1. Comments and README file 1. UML Diagram 1. External Documents
21. Dynamic Understanding 1. Output Logs 1. Setting Breakpoint and Stepping Through 1. Throwing Exception 1. Try to Change
22. Main Line and Branch Line 1. Where to Begin 1. Tracking Critical Process 1. Find the Mount Point
23. Surrounding code (?) 1. Sub-functions Must Existed 1. demo/example 1. Unit Testing
24. Knowing How
25. Modify the Open Source Project
26. Changing from Requirements
27. Finding Codes for Reference by following clues
28. Making bigger changes -- Structural Adjustment
29. Hardships of seeking Approval
30. Finding Bugs and Making Proposals
31. Helping to Improve Documentation
32. Pushing Your Codes (Function Code and Test Code)
33. Surrounding Code (Demo/Extension/Subproject)
34. Promotion
35. Other Odd Jobs
36. Join the Group
37. Partners
38. Organization Structure
39. Organization of Open-source Project
40. Basic Etiquette
41. Create an Open Source Project
42. Read More
43. Contributor
44. FAQ