Comment by Kenan on "I am Quincy Larson. Ask me anything."

Contribute to open source. This will help you do the following:

learn how to work with legacy code
learn how to work within existing organizations and productively communicate and get work done
build a portfolio of meaningful contributions (that aren't just good because you say they're good - they're good because an organization believed they were good enough to accept into their codebase)

Contributing to open source accomplishes all three of these things at the same time. Here's a good place to start: github.com/freeCodeCamp/how-to-contribute-to-open…

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