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# Contributing
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All contributions are welcome, from the tiniest typo to a brand new article.
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Translations in all languages are welcome (or, for that matter, original
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articles in any language). Send a pull request or open an issue any time of day
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or night.
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**Please prepend the tag `[language/lang-code]` to your issues and pull
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requests.** For example, `[python/en]` for English Python. This will help
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everyone pick out things they care about.
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We're happy for any contribution in any form, but if you're making more than one
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major change (i.e. translations for two different languages) it would be super
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cool of you to make a separate pull request for each one so that someone can
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review them more effectively and/or individually.
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## Style Guidelines
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* **Keep lines under 80 chars**
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* Try to keep **line length in code blocks to 80 characters or fewer**.
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* Otherwise, the text will overflow and look odd.
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* This and other potential pitfalls to format the content consistently are
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identified by the freely available
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[markdownlint](https://github.com/markdownlint/markdownlint).
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* **Prefer example to exposition**
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* Try to use as few words as possible.
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* Code examples are preferred over exposition in all cases.
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* **Eschew surplusage**
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* We welcome newcomers, but the target audience for this site is programmers
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with some experience.
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* Try to avoid explaining basic concepts except for those specific to the
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language in question.
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* Keep articles succinct and scannable. We all know how to use Google here.
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* **Use UTF-8**
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* For translations (or EN articles with non-ASCII characters) please ensure
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your file is UTF-8 encoded.
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* Leave out the byte-order-mark (BOM) at the start of the file (in Vim, use
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`:set nobomb`).
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* You can check if the file contains a BOM on Linux/Unix systems by running
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`file language.html.markdown` You will see this if it uses a BOM:
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`UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text`.
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### Header configuration
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The actual site uses Middleman to generate HTML files from these Markdown ones.
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Middleman, or at least the custom scripts underpinning the site, requires that
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some key information be defined in the header.
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The following fields are necessary for English articles about programming
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languages:
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* **language** The *programming language* in question
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* **contributors** A list of [author, URL] lists to credit
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Other fields:
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* **category**: The category of the article. So far, can be one of *language*,
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*tool* or *Algorithms & Data Structures*. Defaults to *language* if omitted.
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* **filename**: The filename for this article's code. It will be fetched, mashed
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together, and made downloadable.
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* For non-English articles, *filename* should have a language-specific
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suffix.
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* **lang**: For translations, the human language this article is in. For
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categorization, mostly.
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Here's an example header for an Esperanto translation of Ruby:
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```yaml
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*--
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language: Ruby
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filename: learnruby-epo.ruby
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contributors:
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- ["Doktor Esperanto", "http://example.com/"]
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- ["Someone else", "http://someoneelseswebsite.com/"]
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lang: ep-ep
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*--
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```
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### Syntax highlighter
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[Pygments](https://pygments.org/languages/) is used for syntax highlighting through
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[pygments.rb](https://github.com/pygments/pygments.rb).
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### Should I add myself as a contributor?
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If you want to add yourself to contributors, keep in mind that contributors get
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equal billing, and the first contributor usually wrote the whole article. Please
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use your judgment when deciding if your contribution constitutes a substantial
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addition or not.
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## Building the site locally
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Install Ruby. On macOS this can be done with [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/).
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```sh
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brew install ruby
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# Install Ruby package manager
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gem install bundler
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```
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Then clone two repos, install dependencies and run.
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```sh
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# Clone website
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git clone https://github.com/adambard/learnxinyminutes-site
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# Clone docs (this repo) nested in website
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git clone https://github.com/<YOUR-USERNAME>/learnxinyminutes-docs ./learnxinyminutes-site/source/docs/
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# Install dependencies
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cd learnxinyminutes-site
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bundle install
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# Run
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bundle exec middleman serve
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```
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