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Welcome Thread - v40

dev.to staff on September 11, 2019

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

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Edward Chopuryan

Hi there guys,
My names is Ed. I'm a full stack developer (react js + .NET core). Very interested in ML and Algorithms and Data structure. Bit of a shy person when it comes to posting new tech blog-posts but hopefully Dev.to will help me change that :)

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Michael Tharrington • Edited

Hey Ed,

Welcome to DEV. 🙂

Just a quick tip, you can follow different tags (like #react or #dotnetcore) but also consider browsing the landing pages for different tags (e.g. dev.to/t/react) to dig through all the different posts under that tag.

And as far as being a bit shy about posting, I totally feel you. If you do decide to write something, I can say that the community is generally super friendly. Anywho, hope you dig it here!

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Cléssio Capalo

that's helpful thanks

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Michael Tharrington

You're very welcome! 😀

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Edward Chopuryan

Thanks Michael,
Highly appreciated :)

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Andrew

Hello!

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Michael-Meredith

Hi All,
I guess you could call me a "Mature" programmer, I started back in the day when we still loaded programs with paper tape. Started with Assembler and moved on to Fortran, Cobol, etc.
At 73 I am still actively programming as a freelancer using Visual Basic, C#, SQL Server, and Python.
Need to get my head around Git Hub and all its strange jargon for my current client so will appreciate any pointers as to how best to get into it.

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Dušan Milojković

Hi Michael,
Welcome to DEV. Great to hear this! Hopefully, you'll find what you need among the many DEV posts. Or you could try asking a particular question and I'm sure you'll find support in the community.

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Anna Costalonga

Hi Michael,
wow, that is really great to hear! well, I am positive that you will surely find help here and that you will master very soon Git, as it is really not that complicated, despite the jargon. All the best!

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marco

Hi Michael, there are some great tutorials on the internet. For day to day stuff you only really need no more than 5 commands: branch, commit, push, pull, checkout.

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Jeril Bills

Hey everybody,
My name is Jeril. I've been wanting to learn to code for a few years now, but haven't made a ton of progress. A lot of starting things and not keeping up with them. I think now I finally have the time and motivation to do this. Am starting out with learning front-end web development for now, but I might shift my focus to learning Python in a few months. This seems like a really neat community, and I'm happy to have found this!

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Ben Lovy

Python doesn't even have to be a shift in focus - you could start out writing a backend with Flask to serve up a frontend you wrote!

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Jeril Bills

Oh, that's good to know. Thanks!

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Jeril! I agree with Ben that Python can be great for web work - so yeah! you can still learn web development by learning python. Good luck!

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Jeril Bills

Thank you!

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e-class2790

Hello everyone. I’m a software entrepreneur. Focusing on SAAS.

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Brenda Limón

Welcome! You'll find a great support in this community!

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e-class2790

Really? I’m browsing the site now. Are there other SAAS owners here?

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Brenda Limón • Edited

You can make a post about it or look for the tag and found some people that might be working in the same things :)

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Nicolas Cognaux

Hey, did you develop a Saas ?

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Franco Donati • Edited

Hello everyone,
My name is Franco, I am doing a PhD in environmental sciences. In this position I mostly work on software development building different types of web and native applications to answer environmental questions for resource policy. I mostly work in python and some js but these days I am actively trying to become sufficiently proficient in C# to develop windows applications. I am very happy to have found this community!

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Ben Lovy

Welcome! What does your PhD concern?

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Franco Donati

Thanks! The overarching topic is circular economy but in details I am developing tools to make macro-economic environmental impact assessment of potential policy scenarios using environmental input-output data, and automating environmental impact assessment of products.

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Chris Achard

Interesting! ... what is circular economy? (is it basically a technical term for "what goes around, comes around?) :)

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Franco Donati

In a way, yes, you could say so. It's an industrial economic paradigm that aims at minimizing use of resources and environmental impacts by using different strategies. For example recycling, dematerializing products, substituting products for services, etc...

The fundamental premise is that we can obtain equal or better socio-economic performance, at a fraction of current resource use while also limiting (or even offsetting) our negative impact on the environment.

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Ben Lovy

This sounds like a fascinating field - and particularly salient these days.

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Al Madireddy • Edited

Hey! My name is Al, a student at UT Dallas, and work as a Software Engineering Manager on campus. Have been reading DEV.to for a while and am amazed at all the knowledge being put out on here currently, and hoping to write and contribute myself soon! Really into full stack web dev currently, with React, Node, python, and Go

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Dušan Milojković

Hi Al. Welcome to DEV.

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Anna Costalonga

Welcome Al! Quite a nice stack you have. Yes, Dev.to is amazing for me as well. Cheers

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𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗢𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗮

"Hello World"

My name is Alex, im a graphics designer, art director, music producer, and everything about you have to use creativity to create, and im about to dive into computer science, when i say dive, is because i will jump in the pool of école 42 here in são paulo, brazil, and i just sure to enter in every community about devs, coders, programmers, to be sure i will survive in this experience.

Have a great day folks ^

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Chris Achard

Hello Alex! Good luck on your code learning adventure! :)

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𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗢𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗮

Thank Chris :D

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Anna Costalonga

Hello Alex, welcome and good luck with your new professional study!

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Alin Trif

Hi guys,
My name is Alin and I am interested in js, node, react and python.
I found dev.to by accident and after reading a few articles(which I really enjoyed! thumbs up to the autors) I decided I want to be a part of this great community :)

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Chris Achard

Welcome! It is indeed a great community - good to have you Alin!

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Alin Trif

Thanks Chris!

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Cosmos Omondi • Edited

Hi, DEV.to community.
I'm a new guy on the block. I've found a new passion for coding and hope that here, I'll get the motivation I need to scale. I'm a beginner. I've just completed HTML and now in CSS, then plan to do JS and React. My goal is Frontend.
Thank guys.

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Chris Achard

Welcome! JS and React are great options for Frontend - lots of jobs there. What have you found to be the hardest part so far?

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Cosmos Omondi

Hi Chris,
Thanks for checking on me. Well, I just completed HTML after a couple of weeks. Three days ago I began CSS. And I find it going great. I know the hard parts are ahead, and I'll let you know as I progress. It's an exciting experience, though.
Thanks again.

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David Wachlin

Another beginner here. React is great!

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Raja Genupula

Hello Team,

My name is Raja and I am from System Administration and Application Support background but recently started career as SRE Developer. I am a full time Automation Developer with JavaScript & Bash and part time Python Developer. Recently started learning Rust and very much interested about it. Interested areas System/Service Automation, ML.

Thank you.

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Chris Achard

Hello Raja! What do you like about Rust so far? I've been thinking about learning it too - but right now I have too many things on my list already 🤣

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Raja Genupula

Hello Chris,
I started reading the book named "The Rust Programming Language" and till now I like concepts like

  • backward portability.
  • Its statically typed - so speed.
  • Its memory concepts in such a efficient way that It dont need a garbage collector.
  • To run a binary build by Rust, you dont have to have Rust(If I remember correctly, never tried though)

This is what I mostly admired about Rust so far and still reading...

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Chris Achard

Thanks! That's a good list. There's just something about Rust (static type, very fast) that seems nice coming from javascript :)

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Raja Genupula

Not directly Chris. as per my understanding TypeScript is the one actually enabling JS to be a static type one.

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Chris Achard

sorry, I mean Rust is staticly typed :) Yes, TypeScript is what would make JS static - but not in the same way (it's not actually enforced in the same way, etc)

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EscalaBien

Hey there DEVs!
My name is Bien, and I'm an aspiring full stack developer both in Software and Web Development. I'm very much interested when it comes to Data and Statistics. I wanted to learn more language and get inspiration from posts and at the same time learn from them! Wish all the best! - P.S. Still a student!

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Chris Achard

Greetings Bien! Good luck with your studies, and moving into development!

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EscalaBien

Much thanks!

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SchemaJr

Hey ya'll guys am Schemajr, am here to learn coding as much as I can, am more interested in dotnet, Machine Learning, C# and more, looking forward to a happy journey with you guys.

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Chris Achard

Welcome Schemajr! What topic in machine learning interests you the most? It such a large field, and there is so much cool stuff going on!

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SchemaJr

I am more interested in Database and Artificial intelligence, which topic are you currently working on?

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Chris Achard

I'm really interested in generative methods - so GANs, etc. It's so neat what they can produce! Coming from a webdev background though, it gets confusing at times :) It's a new experience to have to follow both the math and the programming.

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SchemaJr

How can we be in touch via cyberspace and you lol teach me, I mean collaboratively working together towards projects

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Chris Achard

You can find me on twitter (dms open): twitter.com/chrisachard or on my website (email is there): chrisachard.com/ Happy to help if I can!

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Aashir Khan • Edited

I am a Self-Taught web developer from Pakistan with lots of great stories to tell

I was stuck in Tutorial Rut , Wasted my time in Facebook and Freelance MarketPlaces with lack of skills , but Now I know what I am doing? I am polishing my skills making great products and using twitter.

My latest Project

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Chris Achard

Looks like you're on a good path! Good luck :)

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Aashir Khan

Thanks 😊

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Chimba123

hey there Devs,
my name is Kangwa. I am an intermediate developer(Flutter, Neo4j). What brought me here is my experiencing extreme difficulty in parsing graphql responses in Flutter from my Neo4j-graphql backend.. I was hoping someone could help out since the example concerning parsing Flutter graphql responses on this site works.

I posted the problem on Stackoverflow at the following link:

stackoverflow.com/questions/578891...

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Kangwa!

Sorry, I can't help with your question :/ - but I've been very curious about Flutter! How has it been using it? Would you recommend it for business applications?

Thanks!

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Chimba123

Its been great I was worried about performance but its same as native when I loaded the App on my iPhone X. It's really fun to develop with it and does reduce development costs a whole lot alongside time. It's a genius tool from Google in my opinion

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Chris Achard

Neat - sounds like I need to check it out some more then!

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Marcelo Iepsen

Hi everyone!

My name is Marcelo, with some 15+ years of experience developing (or trying) software. I've been working with Smart TV (React) applications for a while. I'm very motivated to start with an opensource project related to Smart TV development. Suggestions are welcome!

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Chris Achard

Hi Marcelo!

Smart TV apps with React - interesting! How does that work? Do you work for one of the TV manufacturers, or is there an app store for TV apps?

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Marcelo Iepsen

I'm working at Accedo.tv - a company specialised in creating video apps. Each manufacturer has a kind of app store so we can submit apps we develop for our customers.

To develop for Smart TVs you must think in a different way to do navigation because it uses the remote control (navigating with keys) a 100% of the time. It is fun, it challenges you all the time so you can always learn something new :P

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Chris Achard

Neat :) Yeah, I imagine some navigation could be a problem. There are so many bad smart tv apps, but some of that I think is because of how difficult it must be to do UX for that medium. Thanks!

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GecikaDM

Hi everyone! My Name is Gecika. I am actually finishing a training course in Web developpment, in the past month I ve been started to learn React. I am really a beginner and I hope to learn much more and being more confident.😊💪

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Chris Achard

Hi 👋 Love React! Welcome to DEV :)

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Diana Lease

I love React too! Welcome Gecika, I'm new to the DEV community as well :)

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Alex • Edited

Hello there, guys) My name is Oleksandr, I`m a game (Unity3D) developer, but also practice .NET (web, mobile, desktop). Highly interested in English learning :D and, of course, programming: C#, .Net, Web

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Chris Achard

Hello! Welcome to DEV :) I don't know much about Unity3D development - how do you like it?

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Alex

Hi, Chris! Unity is pretty good for a small projects, but a little bit ugly, when project gets fast grow :)

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Chris Achard

Ah, good to know! I have tried playing with it before, but it seemed like I had to learn a lot just to get going - At least - coming from a webdev perspective :)

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Sélom Amouzou

Hi Guys,
I'm Sélom, a fullstack developer (Node.js, React.js and PHP). A good friend of mine sent me this link and I felt in love with what is happening here and would to contribute a great deal.
Oh hey, did I mention that I love dogs? lol

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Sélom! (I love dogs too!) 🐶

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Ben Lovy

Lots of web/frontend - but by no means exclusively!

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Nwadede🇳🇬🇿🇦🇰🇪🇭🇰🇧🇯

Great to find myself here, been curious as a beginner i delve into front-end development and i will need all your assistance to move ahead in an internship programm that will run from tomorrow till the next three month.

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV! Good luck on your internship program :)

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Nwadede🇳🇬🇿🇦🇰🇪🇭🇰🇧🇯

Thanks Chris 😊

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tomtomdurrant

Hey all, I'm basically new to the whole world of programming and developing but about to start an apprenticeship on Monday. I'm pretty excited to be honest!

I'm sure I'll be asking you all some pretty beginner questions soon...

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lexvieira

Hi guys.

My name is Alex.

I'm a full stack developer, although I really like of Data Analysis.

I'm coming back to programming after almost 2 years just doing small freelancer jobs. I'm learning .NET Core, Angular and Docker recently as well.

I'm return to programming to create a project to help people in Brazil.

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Judith

Welcome Alex! Good luck with your journey!

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Alex! Good to meet you :)

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Tony Monday

Hi All,
I am a 55 year old trying to learn to code. I had some experience many years ago with Vax/VMS and proprietary Control System programming but, that all has gone the path of the dinosaur. Looking forward to new challenge. Thank you for any assistance.

Tony

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Chris Achard

Welcome Tony! How are you finding learning to code so far?

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Diptam Sarkar

Hello Everyone,
Diptam here, I am mid level back-end developer mostly working with Java, Groovy & and Spring Boot as a primary framework, Oddly enough I never heard of Dev before yesterday, it came as a random post in google feed and a couple of scrolls later I am hooked, moreover it gave me a feeling I am little behind on what's happening around in programming world, hoping this will change that, Cheers !! :)

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Chris Achard

Welcome! I'm glad I found DEV as well - it's a great way to keep up with tech stuff, and the community is great! Good to have you Diptam :)

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Diptam Sarkar

Thanks Chris :)

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rex50

Hey, Android developer here 😊

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV!

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Lou Franco

Hi -- I'm an iOS dev -- nice to meet you.

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Andy Zhu • Edited

Hi everyone,

My name is Andy, I am interested in backend development ( Python , Nodejs), SQL and AWS. Hope I can share and learn more skills from in the community.

Attached a beautiful view in Queenstown NZ, hope you guys like it.

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Andy! NZ is on the list of places I really want to visit... everything looks so beautiful there!

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Andy Zhu

Thanks Chris.

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Judith

Welcome Andy! Glad to have you here!

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Michael Lim

Hey Guys!

My name is Michael, currently learning the art of Web Development. previously I was on desktop app development scene way back in college but now as the web application is becoming more and more popular, i am keeping up with the development of web applications. currently using PHP (Codeigniter), still learning javascript and advance css techniques. Java EE and Android Dev (java), react, are what I have in store for myself for the next projects to come. I really love reading Dev.to blogs, it really gives me insight to some queries that I have. Nice meeting you guys! :D

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Chris Achard

Welcome Michael! Good of array of things to learn there :)

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Michael Lim

Thanks Chris!

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Zeba

Hello Everyone !!!
My name is Zeba. I'm a full-stack developer (MEAN). A little shy to start but later very talkative. Curious to know about the web dev world hopefully this place will help me learn and grow my knowledge in coding.

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Chris Achard

This is a great place to hang out and learn. Welcome Zeba! What's your favorite thing about MEAN? Anything you don't like as much?

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Zeba

Hi Chris,
Thank you for your warm wishes, from MEAN I like Express, Handling the servers. MongoDB is kind of off to me maybe bcoz I like MySQL more. How about you?

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Chris Achard

I use express too and love it. I haven't used Mongo very much (postgres mostly) because I haven't really worked on a project where the Mongo features make more sense than just a relational database. I also use React a ton - so I guess my stack name would be PERN... or something 🤣

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bluemanyglacier

Hello,

I'm an old guy looking to pick up a new hobby. Learning Java. Followed a post about a daily coding problem in Java to dev.to. Thought I would sign up and see what it's all about. Thanks, Stan

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Stan! Good luck picking up this new hobby :)

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Britt

Hello! My name is Brittany Huntzberry. I've been working as a professional web developer for about 2 years now at a community college district. I primarily work in PHP and support Drupal websites. I'm very interested in user experience, user interface design, and generally making things that people actually need and want to use.

Nice to meet you all!

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Chris Achard

Nice to meet you too Britt!

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Grant Savage

Hey there!

I'm a recent college graduate that recently started a software engineering job at a financial services company. I'm interested in all things Node.js, JavaScript, React, and distributed systems! I'm also very interested in starting to learn ML and data science. Looking forward to learning from others and sharing my experiences as well!

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Chris Achard

Welcome Grant! Nice to meet you. Good luck on your recent new job!

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Sen Sathyamony

Hello there,
My name is Kit. I'm a beginner mobile developer which currently using (React native + Expo) building an application. I very interesting in Mobile Developing and New innovation. I very new in programming industry hope i can learn and meet a lot of people here that able to help me solve the problem and teach me more. :)

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Chris Achard

Nice to meet you Kit! React Native is awesome :) Good luck on your app!

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Fredj Khlifi • Edited

Greetings to all, my name is Fredj. I am a front end web developer, very much interested in brushing up on vanilla Javascript, Vue, React, Node... Any help and guidance with real projects tutorials are very much appreciated.

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Chris Achard

Good to meet you! This is a great place to hang out and read about javascript, etc - good luck in your learning :)

What type of web applications do you hope to build?

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Fredj Khlifi

Thank you Chris, right now I am upping my skills in Vanilla JavaScript, any simple projects tutorials will be of great help.

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Mark Ygan

Hi!

My name is Mark. I'm an aspiring programmer with a current goal of becoming a Full-Stack Python Developer ASAP. I like reading tech articles so I can still learn something when I'm taking a break from learning code :)

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Chris Achard

Welcome Mark! Reading what other devs have written is a great way to increase your skills, and yes - a great break from learning to code (which can really hurt your brain!). Good luck on your coding journey :)

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Diana Lease

Hello!

I'm a frontend engineer at a legal tech startup, interested in full stack development. I currently write in JavaScript, and I work mostly with React. I found this community via Hacktoberfest.

Happy to be here!

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV! I missed Hacktoberfest last year, so I'm interested to see what all the fuss is about - everyone around here seems really into it :)

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Shashi • Edited

< Hello, World of Devs! />

My name is Shashi, self-teaching web technologies for a while now. Dreaming to become a full-stack JavaScript developer one day. Hoping to get some amazing skills from this dev community.

Many thanks

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV! This is a great place to learn JavaScript :) Good luck!

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Shashi

Thanq Chris.

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Olivier [Ξ]

Hi there,
I’m Olivier, software engineer mostly doing stuff with cloud and APIs (developing backends, designing APIs and distributed architectures, doing API management...). The languages I know the most are java and go.
Also having fun by developing plugins for Unity3d on my free time.

I hope dev.to can be one more way to discover new cool technologies and to share experiences or opinions :)

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Olivier! I've looked at Unity3d in the past for some fun with side projects, but the learning curve seemed steep. Are you able to do what you want to without doing it full time? How long did it take you to learn? Thanks!

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Olivier [Ξ]

I've been using unity for 6 years but that was a slow learning process. My advice: instead of trying to understand the whole tool, just focus on a little simple project (like a small game) and... do it :) You won't do it in an efficient way but you'll learn a lot by doing so.

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Chris Achard

Awesome, thanks :)

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Anna Costalonga

Hello all! :)
My name is Anna, I am a backend developer - Ruby and Rails mainly. I am also interested in Elixir/Phoenix and Graphql. I am not shy about writing posts, only lazy :))
I enjoy a lot reading posts from other colleagues and I am always grateful if I can learn something new.
Cheers and a greeting from Berlin,
Anna

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Chris Achard

Hello Anna - Welcome to DEV! Looking forward to anything you post about Rails, Elixir and Graphql! All things I'm excited about :)

The great thing about DEV is that if you're 'lazy' about posting, that's ok - just post whenever you have something to say!

Good to meet you - greetings from the US :)

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Anna Costalonga

Hello Chris, good to meet you :)) And thanks for your words, I appreciate a lot being part of such a welcoming community!

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ujjwal1711 • Edited

Hello everyone, I am Ujjwal. I am working as full stack developer (Java + Angular ). I am an engineer by degree.
Currently pursuing masters in data science.
For me the day without code is the day without sunshine.
Here is the link of my first article Agile Methodology Practices
linkedin.com/pulse/agile-methodolo... free to check out others on LinkedIn and let me know your feedback.

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Chris Achard

Nice to meet you Ujjwal! What are you most interested in about data science? It seems like it is a pretty big field!

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ujjwal1711

Thanks Chris. I am most interested machine learning and computer vision.
Yess it is big and fascinating Field.

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King Chung

Hello world,
This is King. As a product manager from China. I am also a web developer interested in JavaScript, Golang, and so on. I found here by a wonderful article about testing, it's so cool~ Thanks the author and this place :)

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV King!

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Ciaran O'Donnell • Edited

I am a Technologist, originally from England, currently living in Charlotte, NC.

I work at a software consultancy called Avanade, which is part of Accenture, and I lead the Application Architecture Center of Excellence for North America. Beyond that I am a husband, a father and a 'technology enthusiast'.

I love working with technology and people, finding ways to improve the lives of humans through the use of technology. My work at Avanade is helping find solutions for our customers problems, training and mentoring employees, and building a community of learning, sharing and collaboration both internally and with our clients.

On the flip side of that, I LOVE to learn. I try a lot of things with different technologies, I love to read, watch videos, attend talks, and have great conversations with people about technology, business, and experiential design.

For all these things I like to do, I want to get out into the tech community and engage with people, learn more, teach more, and have more great conversations.

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mohamed es-sanousy • Edited

Someone from avanade, welcome from paris :)

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Nina Elisabeth Berge

I work as a recruiter, and I am guessing recruiters can be pretty annoying if you are not looking for a new job and you get many e-mails, messengers, SMS, phone calls etc....from us. The thing is, we are looking for the best match between companies and candidates - and you are so attractive and it's our job to find you. How would you, as a SW developer, prefer to be contacted? And please don't say that you prefer not to be contacted. That will not help me do a better job :) PS and is it true that one should do only three # in order to reach out the most on Instagram and LindedIn?

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Chris Achard • Edited

The best advice I can give is this: make it clear that you understand what you're hiring for, and what I'm good at, before reaching out. After that, the actual type of outreach doesn't matter as much.

I've had recruiters try to talk to me about Java jobs before, when I have absolutely 0 professional java experience. It was clear they were just trying to contact as many people as possible, regardless of what their background was.

Instead, do research about the person, do research about the company, and try to do some pre-matching. I know, it would be a ton of extra work, but you'd get MUCH better results.

Example, compare these two experiences:

  1. An email out of the blue about some technology I don't have experience with, saying they have a vague "opportunity" for me... 🙄

vs

  1. A message about a blog post I wrote, and how company X just implemented the same thing, and why that means I might be a fit for exciting role Y.

Number 2 will at least probably get a response from me (even if it's a "no thank you"), but #1 will just go straight to email trash.

... hope that helps! In general I think that recruiters (good ones!) provide a very valuable matching service - but recruiters that just mass email about totally unrelated technologies ruin it for the rest of you :)

Good luck!

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Nina Elisabeth Berge

Thank you so much, Chris. Very helpful, and I totally agree. Glad to hear that we can provide valuable matching service, and I will put my hours in to make sure I do my research before I reach out. Again, thank you :)

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Manuele J Sarfatti

Hi there,

designer, coder, product manager here 🙋‍♂️

I'm opensourcing the creation of a side project, sharing UX, coding (typescript and testing) and product placement findings along the way, thought of joining dev.to!

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Chris Achard

Welcome Manuele! sounds like you have a lot to share here - looking forward to it :)

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Manuele J Sarfatti

Thank you Chris, about to post the first part of a hopefully long series :)

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Steven Collins

Hi, my name is Steven, I am a front end developer who has dabbled in back end server technologies. I have been in the industry for over 20 years and have a creative background. My main skills are CSS and other related technologies. Im currently heavily into React and Express with my new job and am keen to learn more in this area.

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Steven! What's the most interesting CSS thing you've used lately? I'm mostly a javascript dev, but I'm always looking to learn more CSS tricks :)

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Steven Collins • Edited

Hi. SCSS works very nicely with React. Thats one of the reasons Im learning it. Flexbox is pretty awesome aswell, no more media queries ;)

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Chris Achard

Great points, thanks!

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Bastian Allgeier

Hey folks,

my name is Bastian. I am a designer & developer from Germany. I'm the creator of a file-based CMS called Kirby.

I'm mostly looking for a new positive place to connect with people after years of hanging out on Twitter and being frustrated by its negative direction.

I'm excited to check this out :)

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Chris Achard

Welcome Bastian! This is indeed a positive place to hang out; WAY more so than other places online. I like it!

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Ali Abbas • Edited

I am a MERN Stack developer. The journey at Dev.to so far is worth and the experience and learning which I am receiving from the community that I am a part too now is stupefying. Thanks to all the contributors and developers.

Thank you

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Smarak Das

Hello guys, I'm Smarak. I'm a beginner in android app development. I am very interested in and love to work with Flutter. I want to keep learning about development and technologies. Got introduced to Dev.to while searching for Hacktoberfest. I would like to know more about the platform.

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Smarak! This is a great community where you can just read, read and comment, or post your own articles as well! It's one of the most positive dev communities online that I've ever seen :)

Does that answer you question, or do you have more you'd like to know about it?

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Harish

Hey wait , I know this guy !

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lorib5623

Hi Im really glad you all let me be here. I really want this so bad. Im going to be starting web development at linkedin really soon and im so excited to learn that and coding so i cant do much right nowvbut keep learning from what i see and hear. And Im ready willing and able. Im going to do a blog online.with affiluate networking and i need someone to help me if thetes anyone interested. I cant pay anyone yet until i start making money from that and other ways im thinking about. If anyone interested plez let me know cyz i could really use someones help with all this and building my websute. Which thats not going to be from scratch its going to be from 1 of those inline places.Sorry if i made a few spelling mistakes i get in a hurry typing...thanks guys!! Glad to be here!!

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CollectionWomen

I'm shy about talking and asking about tech, much less posting about it. Everything that interests you are things I'm trying to learn now, so any contributions you ever feel like making will definitely be valued by plenty of folks!
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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV! This is a great community for sharing and talking to other devs :) Hope you enjoy it!

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Amy Brown

Hi! I am not a dev but I work with devs. I found this website through an acquaintance and it seems like a great community. My background is CS (I went to U Waterloo), I worked in software for a while, worked in publishing for a while, worked in tech education for a while, and now I'm a coach. I work with folks in technology who are switching jobs, switching careers, or facing challenges around communications, relationships, or transitions. I'm guess you could say I'm interested in the wetware side of technology.

To be honest I'm also kind of procrastinating on writing my latest newsletter.

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV! This is a great community - even if you're not a dev :) Good luck with the newsletter!

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Radu Anastase

Hey guys,
My name is Radu. I'm a front end dev (react + angular) learning back end (elixir, python, c#). I'm really glad I found this platform, from the looks of it, it has a lot of interesting articles and people. I have a blog (codethatcounts.com), but I haven't been very consistent with it. I'll try to be and whatever I consider fit for dev.to, I will also post here.

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Chris Achard

Welcome Radu! DEV is great for blogging because you can post to your own blog first, and then cross post the same article here; just make sure to set the canonical url in the post settings before you publish.

Good luck with your posts, and learning back end!

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Radu Anastase

Thanks Chris!

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Uriel Campos • Edited

Hello everyone,
My name is Uriel, i am an aspiring web developer, currently in the last semester of my computer science undergraduate degree. My interests are in Vue.js, Node.js, Nuxt as well as Mobile development utilizing Flutter and React Native.
I am also working on improving my Algorithm and Data Structures skills.

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Uriel! Good luck on your degree :)

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Uriel Campos

Thank you very much !

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Jarett Lee

Hi!

I'm Jarett. I'm a full-stack web developer (react = node). I'm interested in making code that's nice to read and making systems that are easy to maintain. I'm hoping to share interesting articles and get interesting articles in return.

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Abdulsalam Shuaib

Hello everyone, My name is Abdulsalam.

I'm a curious learner with a background in Embedded Systems Design and Prototyping. I'm currently interested in web technologies. Did I mention that I'm a neophyte? Lately I'm in love with CSS and I desperately want to know JavaScript.
Very observant and reserved I can be so I doubt I can actively contribute to the writing sphere of this community but I hope that will change soon.

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV! If you want to contribute somewhere on the web, DEV is a great, welcoming place :). Good luck learning javascript!

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Abdulsalam Shuaib

Thank you Chris!

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Dexter

Hi all,

My name is Dex and I'm growing my skillset just like last year and the year before :) I ended up here a few times this week. When I saw @seattledataguy , it was like driving down Dexter ave and signing up was the obvious choice.

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Ben Lovy

Ugh, didn't expect that pang. I miss Seattle.

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Dexter

Every morning, when I look out at Lake Michigan and it’s not the sounds I cry a little.

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Lloyd Apter

Hi Everyone,
Looks like a fantastic community, I'm very glad to be joining!

I recently complete the Udacity FEWD nanodegree and I'm a Microsoft certified solution specialist in Office 365 and Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Enterprise. I'm currently working on developing my first Angular PWA to integrate with Dynamics 365.

Still plenty for me to learn and hope to contribute as well and also make new friends who are interested in developing blue ocean strategy projects together. I'm also looking to join a team and get into a job doing development so help here would also be greatly appreciated. Thanks and have a good one!

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Chris Achard

Hi Lloyd! Welcome to DEV :) Good luck on the job hunt!

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Chance

Hello! I just finished the curriculum at Lambda School and I'm looking for a job making software :)

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Chris Achard

Hello! What did you think about Lambda School? What was the hardest part? ...how about the easiest part?

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Chance

I enjoyed it. I learned more in a year than I knew was possible. For me, the hardest part was learning how to balance the rest of my life while I studied 12 hours a day. Making sure to fit in time for exercise, rest, etc.

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Chris Achard

Ah yeah, that had to be hard. Glad it worked out for you!

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Rowdy Coder

Hello all,

.NET and now .NET CORE developer. Experienced in a number of languages, platforms, frameworks, etc.

Working towards making the jump to a full stack utilizing React and JS. Looking forward to contributing where I can. This is a great resource.

Cheers.

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Guilherme L. Leite Marques

Hello everyone!
My name is Guilherme. I'm just a begginer in development and wish to learn a lot from you guys. I'm learning JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

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Colin McDermott

Hey Guilherme! How are you enjoying the site?

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Guilherme L. Leite Marques

Hi! I'm liking it. A lot of good articles every week!

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Tee

Hi all! My name is Tee, and I just finished a coding bootcamp a few weeks ago! I'm excited to be here because the content gave me a fresh perspective on the tech industry. I've been learning frontend technologies like React, Handlebars, and Sass along with Express, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. Fun fact is that I play classical piano, and I LOVE playing the esport Overwatch! I'm looking forward being apart of this kick butt community! :D

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ReverendOrange

Hey guys,
My name is Thomas and I'm in my senior year of a comp sci degree. I'm dipping my toes into learning web development as that is something my school doesn't cover in it's core curriculum.

Learning JavaScript now and hopefully in the future I'll be making some of my first web apps!

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Jelena Bozic

Hi everybody,
I'm frontend developer and Peter's mom. Interested in JS and trends, especially in react. I'm not used to write comments on articles but appreciate those who does. Hope it'll change one day and I'll find very useful stuff here.

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Huanzyz

Hello,
My name is Huan and I'm a junior student in Vietnam. I like everything related to UI/UX and front-end development. However, I'm facing a big issue that makes me learn from scratch again. Everytime i build a project, i google the problems and apply the solution without understanding in-depth the reason for doing that. It would mean a lot to me if anyone could suggest me some posts that i could study JavaScript and ReactJS comprehensively. I truly wish you guys all the best things in the world! Thanks ^

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Chris Achard

Hi Huan! Welcome to DEV :)

For javascript, there's a great free book: eloquentjavascript.net

For React, my biggest suggestion is to just play around with it a lot. Find a tutorial you like and go through it (here's a good one: egghead.io/courses/the-beginner-s-...) and then just go on codesandbox.io and mess around with the react template. Build a few small projects around something you're interested in. That's the best/only way to really learn it!

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Ngacho

hey y'all. I totally love that nerds are finally doing this😂😂😂. But sure let's do this. I just want to learn how software development works. All angles of it. I dont know if i make sense.

I am a beginner in android apps. I came to dev to learn and read about developer stories.

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Chris Achard

Welcome! DEV is a great place to learn and read about developer stories :) And a great place to learn all angles of it! Good to have you

 
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Mike Lockhart • Edited

Yes please. Back-end web sysop here, would love to read more than just using pigz to compress huge file bases, or restoring postgres databases with pg_restore -j... 😉

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Dalibor Smiljanović

Hello everyone,

My name is Dalibor.
This article dev.to/webdeasy/top-20-css-buttons... brought me here.
I am interesting in webdev, still begginer and hope that I find something to read and learn here.

Cheers

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Sukrit Gupta

Hi DEVs,
Discreet Reader of Tech Articles, now want to write some too. Interacting with & knowoing new DEVs and learn about their work should be fun. Generally I code in C++ and JavaScript. I like to know deep and propose new Architectures. See you guys around.

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Chris Achard

Welcome Sukrit! DEV's a great place to start writing articles :)

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Pomodus

Hi everyone,

My name is Robert. I'm technical but not "technical". I've done several startups, ran a technical recruiting firm and have interviewed thousands of people. Have also run a consulting firm focused on helping companies modernize, adopt microservices and model their existing and new systems. Currently, building a stable of SaaS apps with my very technical business partner. Because we know developers so well, we built a product that helps them to plan their day, focus and reduce interruptions. Would love to hear any feedback as to whether our solution makes sense for the dev community. pomodus.com/ Looking forward to being part of the community.

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Rémy 🤖 • Edited

Welcome!

I looked at your website and the product sounds interesting although I didn't give it a try I have a few questions

  • Does it work on Linux? Apparently yes but it's not really specified.
  • Does it turn down notifications from your OSes (Android, KDE Plasma, etc)
  • I've worked with Pomodoro for some time and found it very impractical. I have hours long streaks that I don't want to break every 25 minutes but also times where I talk around and do nothing particular. What I found to be more efficient is to be goal-based. Cut down your work into incremental achievable tasks and work non-stop on that until it's done. Which coincides rather well with commits by the way. So, rather than fixed-length slots, something that helps you break down your tasks into a fine-grained todo would be more adequate for my workflow.
  • An integration with Toggl would be awesome

Thank you :)

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Pavlina

Hi everyone!

I'm Pavlina. I recently quit my job as an E-Commerce manager to participate in a web development bootcamp and learn how to code! I'm in my second week of learning the basics of Javascript and I'm very excited for the upcoming months!I hope I can share with you my experience and struggles as a newbie and get some support and motivation :)

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shrutivtu

Hi I have just started learning React. I like developing stuff using JS.

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Chris Achard

React is great! What is your process for learning it so far?

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shrutivtu

I have joined an online course on Edyoda. So far they have covered JS using AJAX and also JQuery. They provide mentors who are available to help you and they also give us assignments and projects. I just now completed their project of making an E-commerce website using all the data API. Now they are going to start teaching React. I am going to follow those tutorials and make projects small, big whatever I can. Any kind of suggestions are always welcome.

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Chris Achard

Sounds like you're on a good path! Just know that it's going to seem overwhelming - but keep making a little progress at a time, and you'll get there :)

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Alicia Livingston

Greetings! I’m a Air Force/CalFire veteran who is currently a Software Engineering Apprentice at Techtonica in the Bay Area. I’m Currently learning Dada Structures and Algorithms and React. I enjoy building projects, getting stuck and finding my problem. Any advice as a newbie is always appreciated. Thank you!

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Alicia!

The best advice I have for learning is to find a small project that you're really interested, and then ship it! You want it to be so small that you can easily complete it - it should look like it's just some toy project. Then, after that, you can start getting more ambitious - but the key is just a lot of small, incremental steps.

Good luck with your learning :)

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zcpefaisal

Hello guys,
I am Faisal. I am a full stack developer with PHP, Laravel, Vue, Angular, Nodejs etc. Also very much Interested in Machine learning, Big Data, Data structure & Algorithm. Hopefully i can improve my skill and sharing knowledge with Dev.to...

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hsnapps

Hi there,

I'm an old-fashioned, classical coder with 20 years of keyboard smashing. I began my journey with C , VB6 then jumped to C# and finally - because I realized that I'm getting older and older - I transferred to PHP.
Although I look boring, I'm sure that you'll need my advice in some day, till that day comes, please add me as a friend of yours.

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Chris Achard

Hi, and welcome to DEV! Having experience is great - you've probably seen it all before - even the new stuff is just the old stuff recycled :)

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Eduardo Guzmán

Hi there guys.
I am Eduardo Guzmán, a software engineer from Colombia 🇨🇴
I want to start writing things and improve my writing skills. I just published my very first entry, let met know what you think.

dev.to/eduarguz/exception-factorie...

Lets keep learning things together ❤️

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Nick Taylor

Welcome to DEV! 👋🏻

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Sereton

Hi guys, I am Jay, currently I am based in Costa Rica, but this will probably change very soon. Long time reader. I have programmed as a hobbyist in many languages, but my long love is Python. I also love Go, Elixir and Ruby and have a love-hate relationship with Javascript. I just logged-in because I want to increase my network of fellow programmers, so if you just want to talk let me know. I am interested on all sort of stuff.