CONTRIBUTING.md

Contribution Guidelines

We love your input! We want you to make contributing to this simple questions/solutions repository as easy and transparent as possible, whether it's:

• Reporting a bug
• Discussing the current state of the code
• Submitting a fix
• Proposing new features

Contributing

Different types of contribution practices for this repository -

1) Add a question and provide the solution for the same

*provided question has been addressed earlier, so kindly go through the repository before raising an issue for a question.

• Steps -
  Step a) Click on Issues tab
  Step b) Click on New Issue button
  Step c) Click Get Started button
  Step d) Fill a short description form
  Step e) Press Submit New Issue button
  Step f) Now Comment - "Kindly assign this issue to me"
  Step g) Press on Comment button
  Step h) Wait for the issue to be assigned to you.
  Step i) After the issue get assigned to you.
  You'll also receive my comment stating in which folder the solution needs to be placed as well as the deadline for solution submission.
  Step j) Now you can workout the solution and generate PR(Pull request).

2) Provide a solution

• Steps -
  Step a) Click on Issues tab
  Step b) Click on one of the issues which has not been assigned to anyone
  Step c) Read the question description throughly
  Step d) If know are clear with the question description then Comment - "Kindly assign this issue to me"
  Step e) Press on Comment button
  Step f) Wait for the issue to be assigned to you.
  Step g) After the issue get assigned to you.
  You'll also receive my comment stating in which folder the solution needs to be placed as well as the deadline for solution submission.
  Step h) Now you can workout the solution and generate PR(Pull request)

3) Add a question

*provided question has been addressed earlier, so kindly go through the repository before raising an issue for a question.

• Steps -
  Step a) Click on Issues tab
  Step b) Click on New Issue button
  Step c) Click Get Started button
  Step d) Fill a short description form
  Step e) Press Submit New Issue button
  

  NOTE - Adding question and/or solution of any ongoing live challenges may lead to permanent ban from repository

In general, we follow the "fork-and-pull" Git workflow.

1. Fork the repo on GitHub
2. Clone the project to your own machine
3. Commit changes to your own branch
4. Push your work back up to your fork
5. Submit a Pull request so that we can review your changes

NOTE: Be sure to merge the latest from "upstream" before making a pull request!

Issues

Feel free to submit issues and enhancement requests.

Issues are very valuable to this project.

• Ideas are a valuable source of contributions others can make
• Problems show where this project is lacking
• With a question you show where contributors can improve the user experience

Pull Requests

Pull requests are, a great way to get your ideas into this repository.

When deciding if I merge in a pull request I look at the following things:

Does it state intent

You should be clear which problem you're trying to solve with your contribution.

For example:

Add a code for Arrays

Doesn't tell me anything about why you're doing that

Add a code for Arrays

Question: Sum of numbers in an array(taking input for user)

Tells me the problem that you have found, and the pull request shows me the action you have taken to solve it.

Is it of good quality

• There are no spelling mistakes
• It reads well

Does it move this repository closer to my vision for the repository

The aim of this repository is:

• To provide a simple implementaions of codes with time complexites on the go, anyone can copy and paste, into their project
• The content is usable by someone who hasn't written something like this before
• Foster a culture of respect and gratitude in the open source community.