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Discussion on: The Beginning: From a developer that has been there

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Mohammed Ismail Ansari

This one is as inspiring and motivating as it can get, especially for a person who is starting, about to start or has recently started with software development.
I really enjoyed reading this post, you portrayed the experience exactly as most of us would have been through at the start.

I always imagine how it would be for a non-developer to get started with programming. It is because you do not only have to learn the language, you also have to learn programming concepts at the same time. The language you pick at the start can tremendously shape your perspective towards programming, at least for a few early years. I enjoy getting people to learn programming and feel how fun and satisfying it is to communicate with a computer to make it do something smart and get a feel of how it is to be on the other side.

Again, a good one.

Welcome to software development!

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Bryce Hull

Thanks so much Mohammed. I really appreciate the praise, and I'm glad that so many people that have more experience that I, in the industry, do agree with what I've written. I truly enjoy helping those struggling their way through the beginning stages of learning to code, and wanted to put this out there to try to help at least one or two of them! It's my desire to be able to give back to new developers later in my career, and this is how I decided I would start. (:

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Mohammed Ismail Ansari

About helping new developers, I think we can definitely do a few things together. Take for instance this repository I created a while back: getting-started-with-programming. The idea was to keep it very basic and not include a lot of details so that it is easy for people with very little to no programming experience to have a glance at what programming actually feels like and that too in a fun way. I have only been able to add instructions for web development but would love to add more. Since you've been through it relatively recently, your contributions are highly welcomed :)

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Bryce Hull

I will definitely check it out Mohammed! I'm tied up right now with some projects, but once I get caught up I'll check in to it! Kudos to you though for taking the time to make a resource for people interested in development!