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Inside the original README — Document outline
  1. Read this in other languages.
  2. First Contributions
  3. If you don't have git on your machine, install it.
  4. Fork this repository
  5. Clone the repository
  6. Create a branch
  7. Make necessary changes and commit those changes
  8. Push changes to GitHub
  9. Submit your changes for review
  10. Where to go from here?
  11. Additional material
  12. Tutorials Using Other Tools

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🚀✨ Help beginners to contribute to open source projects

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