Add quick start guide for first-time contributors #1449
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🚀 Pull Request
📋 Referenced Issue
This is a documentation improvement to help first-time contributors get started more easily. No specific issue referenced.
ℹ️ About the PR
This PR adds a "Quick Start for First-Time Contributors" section to the CONTRIBUTING.md file.
What's new:
Why this change:
📸 Testing Scenarios / Screenshots
No functional testing needed - this is a documentation-only change. The markdown renders correctly in GitHub's preview.