Welcome Thread - v11

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1. Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're learning, or just a fun fact about yourself.

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[Lea Reimann 🦄]

Hi all!
I'm Lea, a web developer in training for over a year now. I'm not very proficient with any specific programming language yet but I can use some and do so in my day job. I try to code in my free time too but there are often too many distractions :P My next project is a React Native app, even though I haven't used React a lot yet (wish me luck!)

Hope you all have a nice day :)

[Ben Halpern]

I'm not very proficient with any specific programming language yet

Aww I'm sure you're making great progress.

Good luck with React Native!!!

[Lea Reimann 🦄]

Thank you very much! :)

[xDeveloper]

Hello world, my name is Mike this my first day joining you guy’s. It’s nice to meet everyone. Lea, I’m sorry but I hope the next time I can assist.

[Lea Reimann 🦄]

Hi Mike! Nice to have you here :) Have fun on your journey! What are you currently working on?

[Blek Ulv]

Good luck, Lea!

[Lea Reimann 🦄]

thank you! :)

[Carlos Fabara]

Hi, keep it up! web development is an amazing journey of constant learning. :)

[Lea Reimann 🦄]

I will! I think so too, but this is sometimes difficult but most of the time: so exiting :)

[Mohammad Salem]

Good luck with React Native!!!

[Lea Reimann 🦄]

Thank you! :) I found so many tutorials and guides that I want to look at in the next few days and weeks - hopefully I will have time for it :o

[Andre Barreto]

Go for it! Start a project and finished it is a great path to get proficiency.

[Lea Reimann 🦄]

That is very true!

[Syed Zulqarnain]

Hi Lea, how are you coping with learning various languages and being at a "not very proficient" stage?

[Lea Reimann 🦄]

Let's say: I'm not really coping with it ;) It's confusing and overwhelming most of the time but as long as I have no pressure finishing things on a certain date (I can take the time I need for all the things I have to do/build - as an apprentice in my company) I can manage it. I know things won't be like this when I'm a senior developer but hopefully I will be more proficient in coding with various languages until then! I'm currently trying to focus more on some technologies/languages and this makes working as a developer a whole lot easier for my brain! Well, after all - it's quite the standard to use multiple languages as a web developer so I better start coping with it ;)
Are you proficient in any programming/scripting language? :)

[Raul Guerrero Carrasco]

Hi!!

The last year i did a post in my blog while i was learning how to use.

If you have any doubt, just ask :)

[Lea Reimann 🦄]

Thank you for your response :) Would love to read that post if you'd drop a link :D

[Lorenzo]

Hello! Good luck with your project

[Demi Lee]

Hi guys, I'm a dev in Toronto who's been a dev.to lurker for a while. Finally decided to make an account. Excited to become a part of this community!

[Ben Halpern]

Awesome to have you!

[Colin Principe]

Yay for Toronto! I was born and raised in Toronto. Go Leafs!

[Bertoldi]

Hi from another long time lurker!

[Donald Merand]

Hi, I'm Donald, and I'm jazzed to have found such a supportive and diverse community of developers, on the internet no less!

Fun fact: I recently designed a password-generating app as a way to learn some basic Elm, and an accompanying Ruby Gem that uses Markov chains against a dictionary to generate words that sound right, but aren't usually real words!

[Andy Zhao (he/him)]

Woah! Would love to see the dictionary app in action!

[Donald Merand]

:) Well, I use it in the password app to generate "words that sound like English, but usually aren't English". The thinking being that you want a nice long password, easy to remember + type, but hard(er) to crack against a dictionary.

I also have a semi-secret API that I use to generate fake names for humans: robot.lab.explo.org/randomname/3 where you can substitute any number for 3 and get back that number of names :) You can also get JSON from it: robot.lab.explo.org/randomname/3.json. Handy!

And in general, if you have a dictionary (say, of Elvish words), you can make an "Elvish word generator" like this:

require 'markov_words'

generator = MarkovWords::Generator.new(corpus_file: '/path/to/elvish_words.txt')
# returns a random word
puts generator.word 

[Ben Halpern]

Welcome welcome welcome!!!

Everyone is super welcome to contribute in any way, but one of the simplest ways to get started is to ask an interesting question in #discuss.

All are welcome and it is awesome to have you.

[Víctor Adrián]

How many of we are in dev.to now? :D

[Ben Halpern]

Coming up on 70,000 registered devs. But many more lurkers who haven't signed up yet.

[Víctor Adrián]

Whoa! Cheers! :D

[Niv Dror]

Hello! I am Niv 🤷‍♂️

[Ben Halpern]

[asalgarni]

Hay there Niv.

[Liana Felt (she/her)]

¯\(ツ)/¯

[Adam Hopkins]

Adam Hopkins here. I like to call myself a "solutions developer", but really I am a full stack dev that thinks highly of himself. Don't we all? Or, is it that I don't take myself seriously. One of them. Not sure which.

I am not a trained developer, although I have been doing it for 20+ years. Programming is actually my second career. I started out as an attorney, and practiced law for a while. All jokes welcome.

Python is my main language of choice. But, I am definitely a proponent of finding the right tools and languages to get the job done.

I am looking forward to meeting you all, and learning more about this community.

[Colin Principe]

"All jokes welcome." Is legalese more opaque than software programming?

[Adam Hopkins]

legalese == self.ego + 1

[John Copella]

Hello, long-time reader of the dev.to Twitter feed, and just popped in to share some thoughts on tools/tech/skills that would be good for new developers but maybe tend to get overlooked.

Have been a developer for a long time (since 1988) and have worked on projects ranging from manned spaceflight to mortgage loan portfolio analysis. I've had the occasional forays into development management, project management, product management, etc. but have always stayed hands-on with the code.

Hoping to share some hard-won wisdom and learn the same from others here.

[Sarah Cohen]

Hello everyone!

I'm Sarah, a Computer Science major from NYC, and I'm excited to be here!
I love Java and I find algorithms fascinating to figure out and learn.

Right now, my biggest project is actually not coding, but putting together an all-women's high school, undergrad, and boot camp hackathon and pre-hackathon workshops. It's a ton of work, but I love being able to create an opportunity for female students at the beginning of their career get excited about comp-sci in a fun and supportive environment. (If anyone wants to check it out, the website is hackittogetherlcw.com and there are a ton of pictures on FB, facebook.com/hackittogether !)

I also would love to get more involved in open-source, and will soon be starting a remote internship doing just that, which is super exciting.

Looking forward to talking with all of you!

[Colin Principe]

Hi Sarah. Love your hackathon idea! I hope it goes well for you!

[Waris231]

I like hacking and helping from others for hacking....good luck sarah

[Haider Noor]

Hi everyone. I'm Haider (pronounced Hi there). I'm from Mozambique. I'm a webdev. Been coding for some time now mostly with JavaScript and react. I found this community through Twitter and got immediately interested because I just love these "techie conversations"

I hope I can teach as much as I've been learning from this forum.

[Angela Riggs]

Hi! 😄 I'm a QA Engineer at a tech agency in Portland, Oregon. I've recently started writing more about my experiences and growth in my role, in the hopes of expanding what that looks like at my company, and helping create some insight in general around what QA can be!