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Welcome Thread - v21

Hey there! Welcome to dev.to!

A magical purple dog witch waves a stick-wand in a circular motion over a cauldron, and out comes smoke: "Sup?"

Leave a comment below to introduce yourself to the community!✌️

  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.

  2. Reply to someone's comment and say hello or ask them a question. 👋

  3. Or answer this question: What single programming book or resource would you recommend?

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Cal

Hi guys, I'm a junior software developer from Oxfordshire, England and I'm currently working for a company called Adactus Ltd who specialize in bespoke websites for companies. We mainly work in ASP .Net MVC so C# is my main language which I've been doing for almost 3 years now (in January 2019). I got my job through an apprenticeship so I'm currently doing a degree alongside my work, it's a lot of work and I have almost no social life because of it but I enjoy it so can't complain!

I don't have any projects that I've done on my own, they've all been things at work that I've been part of a team so I've recently decided to build my own site and I'm going down the .Net core route with it. After I've built that I hope to try and get some clients of my own to build websites for so I have more productive stuff to do in my free time.

I look forward to hearing from you all and being part of the community!

Happy programming :)

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OscarJ12

Hello! I'm an Assembly and C hobbyist. Nice to meet you all.

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harkinj

Hi,
Just joined this via twitter.
20+ software dev experience , started life at the unix command window running scripts to build programs, now I find myself on a mac at the unix command window running scripts to build programs albeit with gradlew :) Lots has changed in 20 years but not the fundamentals have not.
I hope I can learn lots on this forum + contribute as best I can .
Look forward to interacting and posting as I go.
John

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Ashwin Hariharan

Hi everyone! Discovered this website not too long ago from twitter, so I guess I'm late to the party.

My name is Ashwin, I'm 26 years old and I've been working as a full-stack software engineer with startups in India. I've also been dabbling with quite a bit of Machine Learning / Deep Learning as well. My interests (in no particular order) include programming, user experience, AI, fitness, and astronomy, so if you like these, please hit me up. :)

I had a very long career break -since 2017 - and I just started working again couple of months ago - that's almost like two years! Although I feel like I could have optimised my schedule and could have been even more productive, this break was perhaps the best decision I ever made for myself! ;) Got into teaching, writing and a whole lot of activities. I've been an active member of communities like freeCodeCamp, Code Like A Girl, and Towards Data Science - I write for these publications and also do a lot of editing work - so if you want to exchange any kind of writing tips, feel free to holler at me!

My goal is to eventually switch from full stack into something that's completely data science / deep learning oriented. But as it turns out, it's a whole lot harder than it looks like! I did however manage to do lots of side projects and write blog posts along the way - medium.com/@booleanhunter

The most important thing that I have learnt, after working in extremely fast-paced environments before -

It's super-important to take time to have a balanced lifestyle and indulge in things that aren't related to software - like art, music, or fitness!

I'm curious to hear from y'all as to what are your favourite past-times / activities that you do?

P.S: I'm going to take time and read through all the awesome posts in this welcome thread, and see all the book recommendations. :D

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Roma

Just like yours, I follow different tech blogs, and gizmo updates on various sites. The current innovation and updates of the field lures me to express my views and thoughts on certain topics.

I am looking to contribute a post in your blog and it will be great if you allow so.

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Gareth Bradley

Hey everyone, just joined from a recommendation in Twitter. Wanting to learn F# and Python.

Fun fact: I run Code Clubs at my local school.

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Helen Anderson

Welcome!

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Gareth Bradley

Thanks helen :)

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Sagar Nangare

Great to be a part of community of developers

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Igor

Hello!
My name is Igor.

I am a web application developer and am currently trying to create my own software development company.

For web development I use VueJS, NodeJS, Angular, Quasar, MySQl, Oracle, MSSQL and other libraries and technologies

I have experience with big data: deploying and using a cluster hashup, data processing (Spark, Scala), a web interface for visualizing the results.

If you want to understand it yourself - try to explain it to people
To study new topics, I try to write and publish articles.

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Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್

I am Thejesh, from Bangalore, India. I am a duct tape programmer. I love to code in Python (I am okay with JS). Here to learn from the community. I usually blog at thejeshgn.com

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Laneone

Hi I'm Lokesh Poovaragan, my portfolio can be found at "itsmeloki.com", I look forward to any gigs that I can work on pls contact me for work :)

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German Bobadilla • Edited

Hi everyone, I'm new to web development. Just jumping in here to say that I love JS and Python, and that once I've created a couple of projects on my on, I'll be taking Go for a nice, smooth dance to the stars.

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Mutale85

Hello Everyone.
My names are Mutale Mulenga.
I am in Zambia, I have been learning PHP for the last 1 year and some months through you tube. and I have created osabox.com a start up company in my country. I am here to learn more from experienced developers and would like to collaborate if given a chance.
Thanks

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aarti

Excited about joining this community. I am a lifelong learner and at the moment interested in diving deeper into networking and operating systems.

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Delight63

I'm Mary, a student. Am new to dev. Am currently taking a course on web dev hoping to become a full stack web developer

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nitish pandey

I a have been a student of computer science components, never really aced any one of them because each of them is fascinating and I have kept on reading up on some of them. I particularly an attracted by the limitless refinement that is possible in deploying software library, language, framework, hardware , design patterns, data mining, data warehouse, BPMN, rule engines.
A few books that I can recall if special liking are design patterns by gang of four, code complete 2, PHP in action (brilliantly written, for any language), C++ by Bjarne straustrope, scalable website by Carl Henderson...I have programmed in PHP, Java and cold fusion + openBD. Keen to tackle an architectural challenge for scale

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