When you're first learning Racket, wanting to contribute to the
community is very admirable, but I think your *first* priority should be
to get experience with Racket. I think this prioritization will tend to
make you more useful to everyone, sooner.
I suggest getting experience with Racket by making things that you want
to make, and playing with language features that you want to understand.
Maybe you want to make a particular GUI app that you'd use, or a syntax
extension you find yourself wanting, or a neat string manipulation
function that you want for practical use or to see whether it can be
done, or a tiling X window manager, or an IRC bot that `PRIVMSG`s nasty
dotcom/logger bots that they should feel bad, or an IMAP&SMTP email
program (warning: working well with a diversity of servers is much more
work than you'd think), or a Racket implementation of your beloved first
programming language, or see how you might express concepts from any of
your school classes computationally in Racket. (This is not a list of
things to do, but off-the-cuff examples that might spark a line of
thought that gets you inspired to something you want to do. You can
understand the problem domain and your requirements, and pursue things
that you're inspired to put work into, and keep it fun and rapid for
now. Eventually, one or more of the things you make for yourself and
learning might turn into something that others also want.)
While you're first learning Racket by using it, it might also be helpful
to others if you kept written notes on things that you found confusing.
Eventually, this list might help improve the documentation for others.
Exception: if you're an experienced programmer in some other languages,
you might be able to recognize some package you'd like to have that
Racket is missing, and to figure out how to get your feet wet with
Racket by building a reusable, idiomatic, good-quality package that
others will find it useful.
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