"My First Pull Request": A Beginners Guide to Open Source with PsychoPy

Make your first pull request and learn how to get started in the world of Open Source Projects!

Contributing to Open Source Projects is a great way to familiarize yourself with coding ecosystems, improve the tools that you and your community use in your research and in general learn programming concepts. This workshop is designed to guide you through creating your first pull request, using PsychoPy as an example.

In this hands-on session, you’ll learn how to:

• Navigate GitHub using graphical tools, including browser-based interfaces and GitHub Desktop.
• Make simple adjustments and contributions to documentation—a perfect first step into open source.
• Understand the basic workflow of contributing to projects, building confidence for future contributions such as bug fixes or feature enhancements.

By the end of the workshop, you’ll see how accessible open source contributions can be and gain the foundational skills to contribute to tools you use in your own research.

Before the session:

• Create a GitHub account.

This session is perfect for beginners and anyone curious about how open source collaboration works in cognitive science software.