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My First Open-Source Contribution

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I’m excited to share that I’ve made my first contribution to freeCodeCamp! 🎉 My contribution was to the Python v9 curriculum, specifically the Kitchen Inventory Tracker workshop. I worked on Issue #70475, which pointed out incorrect Python terminology in Step 2 of the workshop. The instructions referred to check_kitchen_stock() as a function name and said that Python would “throw a syntax error.” While these may seem like small wording issues, they matter in an educational project where thousands of learners rely on the documentation to build the right mental models. I submitted PR #70539, wh

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