Hey There, my name is Krins and this is my first blog on Dev.to. I am in my last year of my computer programming course. I am also taking OSD(open source development) this semester which is one of the courses that I always wanted to take. I thought this course will help me in getting the real world experience of real world projects and also deepen my understanding of how large softwares are managed. This will prepare me for when I graduate and eventually start working in as a software developer.

One of my goals this term is to learn more about spring boot/java. I used java in my 8 months coop. Now I want to use my time at school to learn the nitty gritty of the java and spring boot. I think if I contribute to a java based open source project, I can learn both open source development and java. If I were to set a quantitive goal for the term, I'd say that 2 contributions (which are not documentation) is a good place to start from, of course in a java based project.

The repo I researched for the first bit was was guava. Its a popular project that meets all of my requirements. "Guava is a set of core Java libraries from Google that includes new collection types (such as multimap and multiset), immutable collections, a graph library, and utilities for concurrency, I/O, hashing, primitives, strings, and more! It is widely used on most Java projects within Google, and widely used by many other companies as well."