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Hi. Here mostly because of the great articles I've read on Dev.to. I'm learning (or re-learning C, C# and Web development languages (HTML, CSS, JS)) as I don't really have a clue to what I really want to do. Mostly thinking on the side of web development, game development or even embedded software. Such is life. Happy to be here though. Might find a clue to what I really want to do.
I too have similar thoughts running on my head ,hope joining this community will give me a better picture.
This community is so cool, friends,you are good man.
I want to learn more here from you and he or she.Loops!!
I'll do my best in making something worthwhile!
Great stuff! Hope we can learn a lot from each other.
Same here!
Same here, sharing is caring. I hope me too would learn a lot from here.
Regards.!
Aye. Here's to both of our journeys then. May we find what we want to do.
Welcome to the dev side.
Thanks. Glad to be here!
Hi, Kashfil
C# and .Net Core for web development is a great place to be.
I'm looking forward to learning .Net Core since I've never touch it before.
Well, its good to know your interest in .Net. I know the intermediate level .Net. I hope we may get benefited from each other.
Regards.
Aye! Me too!
Hi, I feel the same way, there are so many great stuffs out there that you don't know what to learn and where to start.
Exactly. I do have in mind a few projects that I really want to pursue but that would be the end goal of all things. Being a computer science grad, it's hard when you want to pursue the things you want to do and to find a career that you can really enjoy. Usually those two things rarely align but doesn't I'll stop pursuing my dream projects. I love coding. It just takes time for me really learn what the languages that I'm relearning are powerful for which is the idea I never pursued during my studies. Now getting involved with online communities (like you guys on Dev.to) makes it easier to have a - not an exact start - direction to where I should be heading towards to. Hope that we all can work together with a passion project we can all share!
The #codenewbie community is what made me get as far as I did with python. Its SUUUPER confusing (at least it was for me) trying to figure out what you don't know and where to start. This community seems rad, I'm glad I found this, hope you are finding it helpful too!
I've heard of codenewbie since I saw it on edX CS50. I've never listened to it but I'll give it a try. Most of the time it's always the pages on github explore that got me thinking what can I do to help people and if I can make something fun and interesting. And yeah, happy to be here!
I equally have the same thoughts, hope to learn through cooperation, what a great community
Same here. :D
welcome
Thanks!
Hello brother, same here!
nice
Nice to meet you.
Hi all, I'm Antti - excited to join the community!
I'm working on more enterprisey technology most of the time, programming in C# or TypeScript and running in Office 365 or Azure. But I guess the world needs corporate coders as well, and despite the stack I don't work in a cubicle farm :)
I work for a Finnish Canadian software company as a software engineer and escalation engineer, and while most of my daily work life has been abstracted away from writing code myself, it's still a part of my life. Once a programmer, always a programmer, I guess!
I already posted kind of an introductory post, here:
dev.to/koskila/hi-i-m-new-here-32o3
Really looking forward to interacting with y'all!
Hi Antti! 👋 I'm also new to the community!
I'm interested to hear how a typical working day in life sounds like. I guess being an undergrad, it didn't even occur to me that writing code would be abstracted away from a technical role.
That's why when you say the above, it really piqued my curiosity!
Hey Leslie - I like that question!
Unfortunately, it's more boring and less technical than one would probably think :) Instead of writing most of the code myself, I communicate with stakeholders, collaborate on specifications and basicly just update and prioritize the backlog for the dev team in co-operation with other product owners.
Luckily, even in enterprisey dev teams, usually you don't have to drop programming if you don't want to! It's a huge blessing that roles in IT are typically fairly flexible.
Thanks for sharing Antti! That provided me some insights 😄
Hey I see you have some experience with Azure! I am curious to know if you happen to know any good resources to get started in learning about Azure? :D Thank you!
Hey Bartholomew!
Yeah, I've got some :) The way I got started was that my employer pushed me there - or rather, the market pulled, and I was happy to jump in. Luckily, both Microsoft and many 3rd parties have tons of content available on getting you started - edX and Microsoft Learn are both generally speaking free, Pluralsight might be the best paid option for courses.
Check out these examples:
medium.com/microsoftazure/5-micros...
edx.org/course/getting-started-azu...
Depending on your previous experience, you might want to jump straight into development (App Service or Azure Functions, for example). You can sign up for a free dev subscription on Azure, free developer tenant on Office 365 (if that's the way you want to go) and tools like Visual Studio Community and Visual Studio Code are also freely available for learning purposes!
See for example:
azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/free/
The corporate world might be all about expensive licenses, but at least Microsoft makes most tools available for development and learning purposes for free :)
Have fun!
Thank you so much for the resources! I am excited just getting started with learning how Azure works! This will prove useful to me when I want to host my site using Azure :3. As far as experience I am a complete beginner in terms of Azure but I have played around with AWS a bit but never really set anything up to intensely but I wasn't as into it I was with Azure though.
My pleasure! Also, be aware that both performance and costwise some things are smart to host on Azure, some not - for example, a static site that's built from your source hosted on Azure DevOps or GitHub works well in a free/shared app service instance, a fancy modern webapp completely hosted on Azure Functions would be interesting and reasonably cost-effective, but hosting for example, a WordPress site is going to give you a questionable performance with above average cost, unless you spend a lot of time tweaking it... Been there, done that ;)
It's a rewarding journey, though - have fun!
Well luckily I am coding my entire website from scratch using React for the front end so I should be fine plus I heard Azure plays well with React and NodeJs so it should be easy to deploy it when the times comes 😁
With that stack, you should be good. Have fun coding and be sure to blog about your findings! 😉
Hi! My name is Siful. This is the first community I’m joining and I hope to be active for a long time.
Hi And Welcome :)
Thanks and you too! :)
Hello!
To you as well!
Welcome to dev.to! I'm currently learning more about GatsbyJS and static sites in general. They have great documentation, and make it easy to learn.
Hi Andy! 👋 I'm currently learning about Web Development in general. I'm curious to hear what makes you interested in learning about static sites in general, mainly because I never even thought about it when planning my learning.
Hey Leslie! Sorry just seeing this now. I'm started to make basic websites for people, and so far static sites seem to be a good pathway of quickly creating portfolio or basic websites. With Gatsby in particular, I wanted to level up my React skills and get up and running quickly.
If you're learning more about web development, I think it's always good to have a solid foundation of how HTML and CSS work. Personally I learned Ruby, then Rails, then Javascript, and then finally more about HTML and CSS (which is now), and I wish I had learned more HTML and CSS to start with.
Hi Andy, thanks for the helpful advice!
Cool, I just created a personal blog with Gatsby and was super impressed by it. A really cool project indeed.
Welcome!
Welcome, I can't wait to meet one of your robots :)
Hi, what made you choose rails in the beginning?
Do you still use it. I am asking because I learnt it but these days I always reach for other tools.
Hi ...
My name is Pedro Martins from Portugal
I’m a developer for the last 30 years ... but always have something to learn
At last a place for me ... só excited
Thanks to every one
Pedro Martins
Hey Perdro. It's always nice to see that even with 30+ years of experience you know that you still have to learn. That's what I love about about programming (and tech in general) it never gets old- there is always something new :)
Olá Pedro,
Wow. 30yrs. 👍
There are a bunch of old timers arriving around here lately.
Welcome.
Thanks ....
Never to late to continue learning ...
Pedro Martins
Hey Pedro,
That's an impressive career! Which stack did you start with?
And welcome to the community!
HI ....
I started with Basic ( old times ... ) then Pascal, Borland Pascal.. Delphi ... DotNet ... Angular and now VueJS
I'm getting old ... to many languages ...
Thanks
hi pedro
Hi! My name is Umar. This is the first community I’m joining and I hope to be active for a long time. I am currently learning Javascript, Python C. Im trying to learn something everyday. I want to eventually program robots but web dev seems to be the best way to make money now. Hoping to learn a lot and one day contribute as well!
Hello Umar, programming robots is a neat goal. Keep on keeping on, you can do it!
Oh wow. Just saw this. Thank you Robert. You’re very nice
Welcome, Umar!
Those are some of my favorite languages to work with. Good luck with learning robotics! I am sure if you work hard you will be able to find your place in the industry.
Hi everyone! My name is Beth, and I found this place through Twitter - some developers I follow use it so I thought, why not try it out?
I'm a final year Computer Science student in the UK, now in the last few weeks of my degree. I've been learning Java and JavaScript for about five years now and planning on learning what I can of Python over the summer. I also recently spent a year as part of my degree as a Junior Developer, working with Java and SQL.
I'm excited to join the community, and keep on learning!
Welcome !
Hi Beth! Glad you are here, I hope we can learn a thing or two here together!
Howdy! I decided to make an account on this addicting site because I am here to enhance my knowledge on web development and become a Full Stack Developer one day. Right now the semester has ended and I am more than determined to finish my personal website that I started back in 2017! If anyone wants to give me tips and advice for how I should approach it anything will do! So far I am learning React, and hopefully one day I'll get back to using Angular for other projects! I also am looking into learning more about Microsoft Azure, AWS and Docker !
Hi Bartholomew, everything you said sounds great so far! Keep reading, keep learning and it will sink in before you know it! Microsoft has some great documentation now so be sure to check it out. Also find some tech podcasts you can listen to. It's amazing how much knowledge you can get just listening to other people talk shop.
Thank you! I wish you luck on your journey as well and I definitely will be on the hunt for tech podcasts because I need to start listening to podcasts on my way to my internship and this summer to keep me up to date!
I spend most of my work day building websites using various LAMP stack and JavaScript frameworks. I primarily work on server-side support for websites, so if you can see it, click it, play it, drag it or drop it, I probably didn't build it.
I love technology, and I'll talk about literally anything.
I look forward to hearing from and learning from everyone here.
Yay! Great to have you!!
😂 I love that!
Hi my name is Ade.
I'm a junior developer from Nigeria, my stack is HTML, CSS and Javascript. I'm super excited to be here!
Hello! 👋 Nice to meet you Ogunade!
👋
Hi all! Not really certain what to call myself, but for the moment, I guess I'm a UI Developer. I have a background in data manipulation and workflow automation, and I love all things JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. I have also been known to dabble in Java, C#, and some other strongly typed languages.
My passion lies in crafting interfaces that allow users to navigate data intuitively but doing so in a way that is visually pleasing. There are few things more satisfying to me than efficiently breaking down a data-set into easily digestible chunks for the end user -- at least in the digital world!
I'm hoping to get a few posts up over the next few weeks, so until then!
Hi Connor! UI designer who can also write HTML, CSS, and Javascript? I was just talking to a recruiter the other day who said that more and more companies are looking for this kind of hybrid designer/developer, especially in the data science field. Programmers aren't exactly known for making state of the art interfaces 😅
Haha, ain't that the truth!
Now that we're starting to hand "big-data" back to the consumer, it's important to make sure that they can make sense of what they're seeing. Otherwise, is there really any benefit to giving it back?!
:)
Hi Connor! 👋
I'm definitely looking forward to your posts on crafting UI data dashboards! In fact, your post prompts me to start researching more on this topic.
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