Idea List of FAQ topics

[Bhupesh-V]

There are a bunch of things that folks in the community ask repeatedly, here are some of them summarized.

1. Guide on freelance (I am assuming the guide should cover almost everything, at least for devs)
2. How to find and distinguish good resources from bad ones?
3. Learning how to read documentation. Examples of how to do so with various popular libraries / languages would be great.
4. How to contribute to FOSS, Hunting Issues, Best way to communicate
5. Git workflows: branching strategies, rebasing etc.
   • Work in Progress by Wiki Team
6. Wiki for non-engineering students to get into tech.
7. How to get an off-campus job?
8. Product Companies v/s WITCH: What to choose?
9. I am from X-tier college, how to get a job?
10. How to prepare for interviews (cover placements etc)?
11. What to learn programming if I am from a non-tech background?
12. Negotiating Salaries
13. How to know if I'm being micromanaged at work?
14. Changing domains after years of work experience in another domain.
15. Career Transitions
    • QA/SDET to Dev.
    • Dev to SDET/QA.

If you have any questions about a topic, ask them below, provide suggestions, you have the platform!

[blazete]

13. Ways to approach a DSA problem.

[Bhupesh-V]

Sounds like a neat idea 👌🏽
Do you have an interest in authoring this wiki?

[triach-rold]

I could help ! I'll do a basic writeup in a md file, we can commit it into the repo if we find it helpful

[triach-rold]

I submitted a pull request for the same. Finished the writeup and md formatting.

[aravindputrevu]

@Bhupesh-V I'd love to contribute to How to contribute to FOSS, Hunting Issues, Best way to communicate

[Bhupesh-V]

Hey @aravindputrevu thanks for the initiative.

However, we published something similar a few days ago:

Discovering Small GitHub Projects for Contributing to FOSS

Do you think we can improve this new wiki, or maybe cover something else in another wiki? A couple of ideas related to this specific topic

• How to communicate effectively while contributing to FOSS (talk about clearing your context, a bit about writing, etc)
• How to approach debugging issues on open-source projects (talk about looking for related issues, PRs that change the files that may have the bug etc).

The idea is to make the wiki as niche as possible (unique stuff, that is not usually read or available on the internet)

[aravindputrevu]

Hmm, that wiki looks interesting. Ok, how about something around continuous skill building?

For example: Someone trying to learn topics in AI, where and how to proceed in general?

I can also directly write about "Skills to build for AI world" - a talk I have been doing in the recent times.

[Bhupesh-V]

1. The first idea (about continuous skill building) might have to be discussed more, As in what topics we can cover in that guide. Definitely yes, but needs some refinement.
   • We covered a very high level overview on how to upskill yourself, in the past, but there's certainly room for improvement.
2. +1 for this. Looks necessary for the current times. Feel free to open a proposal.

[ghost]

Cool!

[nityeshaga]

13. How Indian developers land top remote jobs

[nityeshaga]

I can also author this wiki and share what i've learnt from my podcast

[Prakhargarg-2010196]

14. How to read code from bigger source code repositories ? (Tips too)