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Discussion on: Designers of DEV โœ๏ธ, are you there?

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Shannon Crabill

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I majored in graphic design, thought I would be a cool packaging designer or something, but I ended learning to code to stay competitive.

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Manuele J Sarfatti

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Have you always kind of just understood coding? Or did you have a moment when something kind of "clicked"?

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Shannon Crabill

I didn't get it when I learned it in college.

It wasn't a focus and the teaching was not the best. It clicked when I had to build a portfolio site to graduate, which I cobbled together by taking apart the website templates that came with Dreamweaver. It started to click then. It clicked more when I started working on Code School and Code Academy lessons after I graduated.