# Help with my first contribution

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/help-with-my-first-contribution/16305>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [December 10, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/help-with-my-first-contribution/16305 "2019-12-10T22:38:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![teddysphotos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@teddysphotos](https://discourse.processing.org/u/teddysphotos)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/help-with-my-first-contribution/16305/1 "2019-12-10T22:38:41Z")

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I came across the p5.js library 3 weeks ago and I have been hooked since then. I learned the basics of p5.js from The Coding Train on YouTube. Now I want to do a little more complex/open-source projects to enhance my knowledge in the field of generative art. I’d like to contribute to this p5.js project. I’d request the people of this community to assign me some beginner-friendly/basics bugs which can help me understand this project better.  
Any response would be appreciated.  
Thank you.

**Edit 1: 11 December 2019, 3:54 pm:** I tried looking for bugs in the Github repositories mentioned in [this](https://discourse.processing.org/t/help-with-my-first-contribution/16305/2) answer, but I couldn’t find any beginner-friendly bugs. Can anyone please help me find the bugs which are for absolute beginners or guide me regarding what more to learn so that I can become able enough to make contributions to the community.  
Thank You.

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**Author:** ![Chrisir](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/chrisir/32/45_2.png) [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 10:57pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/help-with-my-first-contribution/16305/2 "2019-12-10T22:57:49Z")

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See here please

> [@Regarding Understanding of codebase](https://discourse.processing.org/t/regarding-understanding-of-codebase/16180):
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> Hello Everyone, It’s stated that I Radhe Raman Tiwari is a Computer Science Student who is having a passion to work towards Open Source Community and the Processing Foundation is a great Community to do so. I have been working with JavaScript for the past one year and got my interest in the open-source community. I have been exploring p5.js(JavaScript) for the past month. Due to my keen interest in web applications and open-source, I want to start contributing to p5.js but finding difficulties…

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**Author:** ![jeremydouglass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/jeremydouglass/32/20_2.png) [@jeremydouglass](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jeremydouglass)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/help-with-my-first-contribution/16305/3 "2019-12-17T00:04:59Z")

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A common label on github for that (although every project is different) is “good first issue”.

There might also be some “good first issue” issues on the p5js web editor – or on other p5.js contributed libraries. Here are some searches to browse:

- [https://github.com/search?q=p5js+is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A"good+first+issue"](https://github.com/search?q=p5js+is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22)
- [https://github.com/search?q=p5.js+is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A"good+first+issue"](https://github.com/search?q=p5.js+is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22)

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**Author:** ![teddysphotos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@teddysphotos](https://discourse.processing.org/u/teddysphotos)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/help-with-my-first-contribution/16305/4 "2019-12-19T14:05:56Z")

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Thank a lot @jeremydouglass

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**Author:** ![kll](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/kll/32/964_2.png) [@kll](https://discourse.processing.org/u/kll)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/help-with-my-first-contribution/16305/5 "2019-12-19T14:17:47Z")

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also this  
[https://github.com/processing/processing/wiki/Project-List](https://github.com/processing/processing/wiki/Project-List) ,

shows we might not run out of work soon.

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**Author:** ![teddysphotos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@teddysphotos](https://discourse.processing.org/u/teddysphotos)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 3:46am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/help-with-my-first-contribution/16305/6 "2019-12-21T03:46:12Z")

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@kll thanks a lot 😃