Repository Examples

Here our repository examples! Everyone selected a different repo according to their interests and explained why it is his/her favorite repo.

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1- FastLED Animation Library

FastLED is a fast, efficient, easy-to-use Arduino library for programming addressable LED strips and pixels.

What I like about the repository:

• The project is well documented. There are tutorials with simple instructions and even a FAQ page to address some of the most encountered problems while using LEDs.
• Huge community support

Nursima ÇELİK

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2- Glb Director

The GitHub Load Balancer (GLB) Director is a set of components used in production to serve all traffic from GitHub's datacenters.

I liked this repository because:

• It has nice charts to show how the design is made.
• It is GitHub's repository, when I didn't know what to look for in a repository I just thought whatever GitHub engineers are doing must be right.

Onur Enginer

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3- Pandas

Pandas is a Python tool to manipulate and analyze data.

• The first thing I've liked is the label diversity. They have many different labels for different situations.
• They have a beautifully designed wiki homepage
• They categorized wiki pages for different employee types.

Göksu Başer

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4- Adversarial attacks on deep learning

This repository is about a paper about Adversarial attacks on deep learning for time series classification. It is a pretty brand-new topic in this area, and this article explains this topic so clear.

• It contains a general point of view for beginners.
• It's the topic that I'm curious about it.
• Adversarial attacks are interesting topics in deep learning. Therefore, a clear text provides a better understanding. In this repo, this phenomenon is illustrated in detail and with codes.
• It is well-prepared and contains pictures, descriptions.

Afra Akbaş

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5- Hystrix

Hystrix is a latency and fault tolerance library designed for distributed systems. It is developed by Netflix. Some cons of the repository:

• In its home wiki page, it explains what Hystrix is and why it is needed. In addition to that, it explains how Hystrix is working with some flow charts and pictures. As a result, it convinces you to use Hystrix and it also convinces you that Hystrix is really working.
• It has tutorial pages for configuration and commands of Hystrix.
• Repository includes two end-to-end examples that used Hystrix. Therefore, it makes you feel more comfortable to use Hystrix.

Yasin Kaya

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6- Angular Cli

Angular is typescript based frontend language developed by Google.

• It has detailed read-me part includes installation, debug, testing and packages that we need.
• It has comprehensive and structural wiki page. I can find anything I want.
• Issues are also detailed and well-grouped. Also they pinned important issues.

Ali Alperen Durak

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7- Linux kernel

• Opensource is it!
• It's the first repository. We can use github because of it in some way.
• It's alive from the beginning of github and have many contributors.
• When the project is developed, almost all devices we use are affected by it. Because they are using linux kernel.

Emre Yılmaz

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8- Facebook Massenger Bot

It is a bot can be trained talk like you.

• Every step of installation and the usage of the application is described in readme page.
• It is a real application.
• You can easily use because it describes step by step how to teach your bot.
• Project doesn't contain wiki page.

Oğuzhan Özboyacı

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9- Universal Extractor 2

Universal Extractor 2 is designed to extract files from a very long list of file formats, including standard archives such as .zip and .rar, application installers and disk images.

• Quite informative

Ömer Topuz

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10- Block[Chain] Alchemy Lab

Block[Chain] Alchemy Lab aims to provide a toolkit for experimenting with blockchain systems. This toolkit includes programming framework and tools for modelling different blockchain systems.

• Open source
• Developers are still active and willing to help you achieve your goal.
• Even though this is a niche topic, these repo is newb friendly.
• Have wiki that guides you through fundamentals.

Burak Berk Özer