# Beginner for GSOC? **URL:** \ **Category:** Google Season of Code\ **Created:** [February 27, 2022, 12:02pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/beginner-for-gsoc/12364 "2022-02-27T12:02:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sammeeey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/sammeeey/32/7340_2.png) [@Sammeeey](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/Sammeeey)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 12:02pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/beginner-for-gsoc/12364/1 "2022-02-27T12:02:12Z")
Hi y’all. I am currently teaching myself coding by building my first simple Django app. Before I’ve only had a little bit of experience with web scraping in Python (mostly hobby projects). The past days I’ve started to make my first steps into contributing to Django by creating a few tickets and [help triaging](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/33542#comment:2). I feel that I could probably contribute to the documentation. But looking at [the ideas for GSOC](https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2022#Ideas) they seem quite overwhelming for me. Although I know that we should come up with our own ideas, I am tempted to ask what a rather “medium or easy” project could look like. Would such an entry level project even make sense in that case? I was wondering if there are only 175h projects and 350h projects? Or are there more categories? ---
**Author:** ![carltongibson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/carltongibson/32/267_2.png) [@carltongibson](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/carltongibson)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 10:24am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/beginner-for-gsoc/12364/2 "2022-03-01T10:24:39Z")
Hi @Sammeeey 👋 The sizes are laid-down by GSoC: essentially they’re **short** and **long**. They’re meant to substantial: I don’t think GSoC is really targeting smaller _Just solve a ticket_ type projects — it’s meant to take the _summer_ after all… 🙂 The idea is that you dig-in and really learn something. I know it can seem intimidating but… well… dig-in! 😄 If you’re truly a beginner then maybe it’s too much, but normally it’s CS students — is that you? — so _why not?_ I would think the Benchmarking, Per-instance Lookups, Database-level Cascades, and Rate-Limiting projects would all be addressable with a bit of investigation. ---
**Author:** ![Sammeeey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/sammeeey/32/7340_2.png) [@Sammeeey](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/Sammeeey)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/beginner-for-gsoc/12364/3 "2022-03-05T15:32:02Z")
Thank you for the answer @carltongibson. ✌ > [@carltongibson](#): > > CS students — is that you? — so _why not?_ I don’t have a CS background. Therefore I think I’ll need some more time to find my way into Django and web development in general. But since you’ve just accepted [my ticket in the tracker](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/33544) I’ll have a look and try to solve it for now. ---
**Author:** ![carltongibson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/carltongibson/32/267_2.png) [@carltongibson](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/carltongibson)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 7:18am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/beginner-for-gsoc/12364/4 "2022-03-08T07:18:34Z")
Hey @Sammeeey > [@Sammeeey](#): > > I don’t have a CS background. Me neither 🙂 — I did philosophy… I don’t mean to put you off with the CS mention — more that most GSoC applicants **are** doing CS… The real measure there is whether you’re coding skills are there, and beyond that your problem solving skill — which are **not at all** limited by study area. You’re already coding, so maybe… — only you can say. Happy to consult on your ticket. If you wanted to dig in and see about enabling the cached template loader in development, that would be a good change. (It’s on my hit list.) If you were able to do that, and you had the time to commit to GSoC, I don’t see why you couldn’t take on a project: most problems need time/love/energy/thought but they’re not often hard to the point of being intractable. The reason most issues aren’t resolved is lack of time. (And yes, **some** are genuinely difficult.) HTH Kind Regards, Carlton ---
**Author:** ![Sammeeey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/sammeeey/32/7340_2.png) [@Sammeeey](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/Sammeeey)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 9:20am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/beginner-for-gsoc/12364/5 "2022-03-10T09:20:03Z")
Thank you @carltongibson. I’ll take some minutes every day to dig in there. Once I have a basic understanding and maybe some ideas, I’d be glad to get your feedback. What’s the best way to arrange the consultation? Kind Regards, Sam ---
**Author:** ![carltongibson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/carltongibson/32/267_2.png) [@carltongibson](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/carltongibson)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 10:17am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/beginner-for-gsoc/12364/6 "2022-03-10T10:17:05Z")
You can ping me here, or open a draft PR on GitHub if you prefer. 👍 ---
**Author:** ![yokwejuste](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/yokwejuste/32/27485_2.png) [@yokwejuste](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/yokwejuste)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/beginner-for-gsoc/12364/7 "2022-04-16T02:33:44Z")
Greeting here! I’m steve from cameroon and i’m really new to this.