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Practical exercise

Read and explain a real open source program

Most of your future job will be reading code other people wrote, not writing code from scratch. Today you will pick one tiny open source Python file from GitHub, read it line by line, and write a one paragraph explanation in plain Urdu. After this, GitHub stops feeling scary.

35 min·practitioner
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Now try it

Read and explain a real open source program

Stretch

On a laptop, fork the repo to your GitHub account. Add a comment in Urdu inside the file explaining one line. Push your change. Save the URL of your fork.

Goes into your portfolio

A photo of a handwritten 100 word Urdu explanation of one open source file, alongside a Replit screenshot showing it running with a Pakistan relevant input.