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Discussion on: If you could go back in time and restart your coding journey again, how would you do it?

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Jon Randy 🎖️

I grew up as a programmer - starting aged 7 back in 1983... and the tech grew with me. Faster and faster processors, increasingly more storage, improving graphics capabilities, the advent of the web. Overall, a superb time to be learning.

It's been a blast, and the exposure to so many different technologies with all their associated limitations has given me a deep understanding of programming.

All our mistakes are part of the learning process, and allow us to grow. The culmination of all my failures and successes made me the developer I am now.

If I went back, I wouldn't change a thing

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Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

Wow, must be amazing to be in tech since like the very beginning 😯 Sounds so interesting!

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Jon Randy 🎖️

Hardly "the very beginning", but I've certainly seen a lot of change