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Barkin Simsek

Junior Computer Engineering Student @ NYU

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Week 14: Every good thing comes to an end

This course might be finishing, but my open source journey just started
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Week 13: Group projects, group projects, group projects!

This week was all about group projects!
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Week 12: Open source projects for social good and business models centered around open source projects

These three might seem like two contradicting things, but they can totally live together
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Week 11: Open Efforts regarding COVID19

What a time to be alive
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Week 10: Wikipedia, stand-up reports, and group projects

roses are red; violets are blue; the time flies; 2020, what is wrong with you?
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Week 9: The Cathedral and The Bazaar & Learning about how and why large companies contribute to open source v2

This week, we did a lot when compared to the other weeks!
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Week 8: Learning how to actually use rebase command on Git and the group project progress

Did you branch for developing a feature, but do you need to get new commits in the main branch? Then, it sounds like it is time to rebase!
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Week 7: Deciding on our final project

We are very close to actually contributing to open source projects!
3, 2, 1, 0...All engines running! Lift-off! We have a lift-off!
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Week 6: Understanding reproducible research and choosing an open source project to contribute to

In this article, the first part is about my understanding of the reproducible research, and the second part is about evaluating an open source project before contributing to it.
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Week 5: Learning about how and why large companies contribute to open source

I always thought large companies would prefer to keep their code secret to gain a competitive advantage. Apparently, some of these companies (like Bloomberg) believe that sharing is caring.
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Week 4: Thoughts on Open Data

Yes, there is a lot of data available on the internet, but can we use all of it?
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Week 3: Finalizing the Firefox extension

Turns out it is not that simple to create a Firefox extension if you are doing it with a group
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Week 2: Creating a Firefox extension

Creating a browser extension is simpler than you think! (If you already didn't know)
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Week 1: Getting started with open source

The title of this post makes it sound like a tutorial post, but this post is actually about my journey with open source
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