Hacktoberfest 2020 - Implement Python algorithms or data structures, fix existing ones and more!

[poyea]

The annual Hacktoberfest is around the corner! Register on Hacktoberfest's website and open 4 pull requests during October 2020 to receive the swags (if you're the first 70,000 participants)!

In our Python repository, there are currently several open issues:

• Dev sprint ideas: More tests, type hints and less complexity #2128
• Need a GitHub Action to autoclose empty issues #1901

What's more, you can also fix an existing bugs, improve any documentation and provide better implementations for certain algorithms! Feel free to inform the community by filling an issue and start hacking! If you're new to contributing code, please read our Contribution Guidelines for an overall understanding and ask questions on the internet - Google, StackOverflow or our Gitter.

TheAlgorithms has repositories in other programming languages, so find your language and start coding there!

What you can do to participate

1. Read our Contribution Guidelines
2. Comment below or open an issue (for big ideas you may want the community to know) on your new implementations, fixes or functionalities
3. Start hacking!
4. Open a pull request for your contribution
5. Label your pull requests with hacktoberfest
6. Wait until your pull requests get reviewed or merged! In the meantime, you can review someone else's pull requests too

Useful links

• Our Gitter channel
• The Contribution Guidelines of TheAlgorithms/Python
• Our Code of Conduct
• The Directory of TheAlgorithms/Python

Remarks

• Please observe Hacktoberfest's rules, terms and FAQ. If a pull request is marked invalid or spam it would not be counted and the person may be disqualified for the swags.
• Hacktoberfest 2020 is an event presented by DigitalOcean, Intel and DEV.

Hacktoberfest's update

PRs count if:
Submitted in a repo with the hacktoberfest topic AND
during the month of October AND (
The PR is merged OR
The PR is labelled as hacktoberfest-accepted by a maintainer OR
The PR has been approved
)
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/hacktoberfest-update

[cclauss]

PSA: I am checking out for the month of Hacktoberfest. I have some important work that I must attend to so I will stop contributing to this repo for the next 30 days. I would encourage maintainers to stick with the rules that have gotten us this far: be friendly, insist on best coding practices including all that is in CONTRIBUTING.md (functions, type hints, doctests, etc.)

If you see PRs that are useless or show that the contributor has not read CONTRIBUTING.md please mark those PRs with the invalid label and close them. (Hacktoberfest organizers look for the invalid label.) Do the same for any contributor who is disrespectful. If we consistently demonstrate that we have high standards and no tolerance for disrespect then the spamers will go elsewhere.

See you again in November.

[poyea]

Please observe that, from now on, a PR has to be marked hacktoberfest-accepted, approved or merged in order to be counted towards the event. For maintainers, please add the labels hacktoberfest-accepted to PRs that are NOT spams, even if you can't review those PRs at the moment. As usual, we label spams as invalid.

https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/hacktoberfest-update

[DmytroLitvinov]

Hi @poyea ,
Mark please issue #2402 as resolved in the first message of that issue.

[poyea]

Sure.

[thevirtualbuddy]

Hi @poyea & other maintainers,
I am interested to contribute one of my projects to this repository.
The project is a simple CLI application (python based) which has the following functionalities:

1. Encrypt and encode data in an image.
2. Decode and decrypt data from an image.

It uses Caesar cipher (encryption & decryption) and Image Steganography(encoding & decoding).

Can I contribute it to this repository?

[poyea]

Yes. You may also see if there's any related implementation in ciphers.