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@@ -38,7 +38,13 @@ working on getting your pull request submitted to our internal repository. After
 the change has been submitted internally, your pull request will be merged
 automatically on GitHub.
 
-If you want to contribute but you're not sure where to start, take a look at the
+If you want to contribute, start working through the TensorFlow codebase,
+navigate to the
+[Github "issues" tab](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues) and start
+looking through interesting issues. If you are not sure of where to start, then
+start by trying one of the smaller/easier issues here i.e.
+[issues with the "good first issue" label](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/labels/good%20first%20issue)
+and then take a look at the
 [issues with the "contributions welcome" label](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/labels/stat%3Acontributions%20welcome).
 These are issues that we believe are particularly well suited for outside
 contributions, often because we probably won't get to them right now. If you