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Mentro-Community-Blog

https://community.blog.mentro.tech

We are excited to be a part of 👇

HacktoberFest 2021

📝 Community Blog website is for contributors to get a glimpse of mentro. The website also includes blogs and guides by the mentrozens to help you better understand our work and learn from others experience.

👉 If you are a begineer to open-source, then this is a one-stop place for you to contribute to issues with the tag HacktoberFest and you can also explore, connect with the mentors at Mentro. So, what are you waiting for?🎉

👉 Here's where you may post your questions and look for potential issues to contribute. We've put up a list of beginner-friendly issues ahead so you can get started as soon as Hacktoberfest begins! 🚀

👉 Feel free to drop your questions on discord

✔️ Make sure you have downloaded Mentro's Android App

💯 Don't forget to give our repo a star it would motivate us🌟

Ace the HacktoberFest like a pro⭐:point_down:

• Register yourself through this form

• Merge Your First PR 🔥

• Ask Your Doubts 💬

• Share on Twitter, LinkedIn after your PR has been merged into the repo as we believe in learning in public & you can tag us using #mentro #mentrozens📣

• Find your mentor🤝

• Add beginner-friendly issues 🙏

• Add blog 📖

Let's help each other to complete the Hacktoberfest challenge! 🚀

May the open-source be with you🎉🎉

✍️ What is Mentro?

Mentro is a mentorship platform which connects you with mentors from great startups & companies like Microsoft, Cred, Zomato, Google, Amazon, Jio, Flipkart, Gojek, Goldman Sachs & many more.

How to Contribute? 👇

1. Fork the repository

2. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/<GITHUB_USERNAME>/Mentro-Community-Blog.git 

3. Go into the directory containing the project, and get started

4. To know more about the setup and how to contribute visit here

How to make a pull request? :man_technologist:

1. After cloning the repository you can switch to the cloned repo on your local machine.

  cd mentro-community-blog

2. Create a new branch.

  git checkout -b <name of new branch>

3. Stage your changes.

  git add .

4. Commit the changes.

  git commit -m "Add <your-github-username>"

5. Check the status of your repository.

  git status

6. Push your repository to GitHub.

  git push origin <name of your branch>

7. Navigate to your forked repo, on the top of the files section you'll notice a new section containing, a contribute button!

8. Click on the contribute button, it will open a drop down, click the pull request button on the drop down.

   Note: A pull request allows your changes to be merged with the original project.

   Wait for your changes to get merged.

Hurray! You have successfully made a contribution! 🥳🎉

💬 FAQ and Other Questions

• If you have a general question about a project or repository or about mentro, submit a message to the relevant channel on mentro's discord: https://discord.gg/93vAUe3sdg
• If you have other questions, please write us at :e-mail: [email protected]

mentro-community-blog's Issues

Updating all the dependency version in the gemfile

I updated all the dependency versions in the gemfiles to make all of them as the latest stable version.

Optimize Website

The contact page can be removed and the contact details can be added in the footer section so as to minimize the number of HTML files the Website have

Binary Search.

Adding binary search.

Improve the blog category cards in the home page

Make the blog category cards more intuitive 👇

How to remove duplicate elements in an sorted array

here is a link to the leetcode question
Don't just write code but also explain the approaches and write a blog explaining the same.

Update readme.md

The command given for cloning the repo needs to be updated as per the latest updates in the given repository. Admin, Please assign this issue to me so that I can work further.

UI Improvements of website - home page

Improve the UI of the website i.e home page

Blog post on sorting algorithms - Selection Sort

Write a blog on selection sort algorithm giving proper explanation and don't just copy-paste content from GFG or any site as referring is okay but copying is not ❌
So make sure your blog is plagiarism-free and run your blog through Grammarly once.

Add Hamburger menu in the homepage

The menubar we have now is basic, we are looking forward to the hamburger menu type

You can post your doubts here itself or reach out to us over discord.

Sudoku solver

https://leetcode.com/problems/sudoku-solver/
this is the link to the question plz mention the Leetcode question number(37) in the blog as well so that it would be easily found by the users under the leetcode category on our website

Blog post on sorting algorithm - Merge Sort

Write a blog on merge sort algorithm giving proper explanation and don't just copy-paste content from GFG or any site as referring is okay but copying is not ❌
So make sure your blog is plagiarism-free and run your blog through Grammarly once.

Write blogs related to how the server works in the backend

Need to write a blog related to how the server works in the backend which will show up in the backend topic card on the website here 👇

Write a blog post on how API works

You need to write a blog that will give a deep understanding of how API works even to a 5-year old kid.

Improve the Header & Footer of the website

Discussions

Comment all your doubts, suggestions related to our website here 👇

Selection Sort in Homepage

The section should be inside DSA I suppose

Linear Search.

I want to add a blog on searching algorithms.

Design thumbnails for blogpost

Summary of the Issue

Due to community active participation, we now have more blogs being merged into our repo. Kudos to all the contributors 🎉 🎉 But as you can see on our blogs and on our homepage, the thumbnail we are using is always the same and it does not seem so visually attractive and appealing too.

So, we need some designs for the thumbnails for most of the blogs from the contributors.

The Design Tasks

S.N.	Design	Assigned To	Progress
1.	Selection Sort	@ritesh-karankal	⏳
2.	Merge Sort	@Aayushi-Mittal	⏳
3.	Bubble Sort	@aumdavda	⏳
4.	Getting Started with API	@anmolsingh0219	🎯
5.	How does API Works?	Nobody	❌
6.	Insertion Sort	Nobody	❌
7.	Quick Sort	Nobody	❌
8.	Shell Sort	Nobody	❌
9.	Counting Sort	Nobody	❌
10.	Comment to add others

Here, the emoji in progress denotes;

• ❌ symbolizes the task has not been assigned to anyone,
• ⏳ symbolizes the task is in progress, and,
• 🎯 symbolizes the task has been completed.

How to take the task?

• First look after the design that you think you can complete. If the design is already in progress, please select another design,
• Comment in this issue to take the task,
• Don't forget to mention which design you will be working on,
• After the design is completed, you can add the image file inside ./assets/images/thumbnails/.
• Submit a PR and let us review it.

Also, this issue also creates an opportunity for designers to contribute to open-source and to earn +1 PR for their challenge.

Blog on sieve of eratosthenes and binary exponentiation

I will make sure that I try to explain this in my own words. The content will not be plagiarised. Please assign this issue to me.

Quick Sort

Write a blog on quick sort algorithm giving proper explanation and don't just copy-paste content from GFG or any site as referring is okay but copying is not ❌
So make sure your blog is plagiarism-free and run your blog through Grammarly once.

Add Infinite loading of the blogs in the homepage

We are planning to make a blogging website that has an infinite loading of the blogs for reference you can refer here and for the category filtration you can sort it according to the latest, old, most voted ones

You can post your doubts in case of any here itself or reach out to us over discord.

Blog post on sorting algorithm - Bubble sort

Write a blog on bubble sort algorithm giving proper explanation and don't just copy-paste content from GFG or any site as referring is okay but copying is not ❌
So make sure your blog is plagiarism-free and run your blog through Grammarly once.

Using scanf() instead of Printf in C code for Selection Sort.

In the Selection Sort blog, in the implementation in C, it is used printf() to take the array input which should be scanf().

Here is the reference:

Insertion Sort

Write a blog on insertion sort algorithm giving proper explanation and don't just copy-paste content from GFG or any site as referring is okay but copying is not ❌
So make sure your blog is plagiarism-free and run your blog through Grammarly once.

Adding Auto Commentor on Issues and PR's

I'll take this!

Counting Sort

Write a blog on counting sort algorithm giving proper explanation and don't just copy-paste content from GFG or any site as referring is okay but copying is not ❌
So make sure your blog is plagiarism-free and run your blog through Grammarly once.

Improve the UI of the website

Images problem in mobile view

In the mobile view, the images on the home page are not showing up, I can fix this. Can someone assign the issue to me?

Getting started with API's

Write a blog on how to make an API along with examples, crystal-clear explanation & plagiarism free content
also, make sure to run your blog through Grammarly once.

Shell Sort

Write a blog on shell sort algorithm giving proper explanation and don't just copy-paste content from GFG or any site as referring is okay but copying is not ❌
So make sure your blog is plagiarism-free and run your blog through Grammarly once.

Update contributing.md

Minor changes need to be done according to the latest updates in the repository. Please Assign this issue to me so that I can start working further.