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Welcome Thread - v41

dev.to staff on September 18, 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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candaceyw

Hi, I'm Candace. I'm currently a graphic designer and photographer, been at this for about 16 years now. But I'm switching things up and jumping in to learn full stack web development. Currently trying to wrap my brain around JavaScript, slowly. I have some HTML and CSS knowledge, but I need to fill in some gaps there as well. Hoping to learn more!

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Tyrus Malmström

Greetings Candance! That's awesome that you've been doing graphic design for 16 years, congrats on that!

Just want to say that I think it is awesome that you've decided to switch things up and if you ever want to discuss JavaScript, I'm always up for a discussion.

Best!

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ssndude2

Hi Candance,
I am new here also but I have been coding for around 50 years, If you don't mind I can maybe offer a hint that will make your coding easier. I recommend not trying to optimize while coding, keep your functions simple, short and single minded.

Rick

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candaceyw

Thanks, Rick! I will keep that in mind. I know it's easy to over think things. So I appreciate any advice!

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candaceyw

Thank you, Tyrus! I really appreciate that! I'm really enjoying it so far... frustrated at times, but that's to be expected. :)

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Nitesh Sharma

Hi.

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Mostafa ElNahass

Hello everyone. I'm Mostafa and I originally graduated with a business informatics degree. However, years of not finding a job as a technical consultant or a project manager because I did not fit "their criteria" led me to experiment with my own eCommerce business. My passion in programming was renewed again and I am currently working on a C# project, python project and an Android project. I'm looking to learn a lot to advance and share my knowledge with the community

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Mostafa! This is a great community to learn a lot :)

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Mostafa ElNahass

I am glad I joined this community and I am willing to learn and give to the community when I have more experience

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Cool! Hi Mostafa! What kind of ecommerce development did you do? I help maintain Solidus.

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Mostafa ElNahass

Hello Jacob, I did not do any ecommerce development but I had my own Amazon/ebay stores and I shut them down due to scams. Now I am still doing ecommerce on other platforms but on a lower scale. In the future I am planning to develop my own ecommerce platform with the things I learned to make it both Seller and Buyer friendly

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Viera

Hi Mostafa, I love the choice of C# and python. What programming language are you using for your Android project?

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samuele-cozzi

Hi there guys,
My names is Samuele. I'm a full stack developer (Microsoft.NET). Very interested in ML and Algorithms.

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Michael Maitoza

Hi there! I hope this is a great experience for you.

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Henry Valbuena

Welcome @samuele-cozzi

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Vicente G. Reyes

Hi Samuele! Welcome to DEV!

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Henry Valbuena

Hey there, I'm Henry. I recently made a career change into programming. I've been coding for the past ten years just for fun until about a couple of years when I followed the white rabbit and took the red pill. The journey has just begun since I just finished a Computer Programmer program. Wish me luck!.

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Vinícius Gomes

Good luck, Henry! What would have happened if you'd taken the blue one?

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Henry Valbuena

I would have stayed in my previous boring job lol!

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S.Panaligan

Good Luck!! I'm also a red pill person... let me know how it turns out on the other side :)

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Elmer Chacon

Hi Everyone!

My name is Elmer, I'm a NET full stack developer. Im very interested in expand my knowlege with Frontend frameworks such Angular and React.

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Chris Achard

I love React :) happy to help if you get stuck! Have you done any tutorials, etc to learn it yet?

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Elmer Chacon

Not yet, Im starting with some Angular Tutorials with NET Backend, but hopefully I will continue with React

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

I'm also trying to get better at React, and JavaScript in general! Welcome!

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webdevtestus

Hi! I am a Jr. web dev with some coding knowledge "put to work" in some live projects. I actually work creating and maintaining Wordpress Sites, woo commerce stores and niche sites/landing pages. I have a good knowledge of performance and load speed and can help with those issues. I also have some SEO, growth hacking and marketing experience. Hope I can help and learn a lot!

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Antone

Hey!

How do you like WordPress?

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webdevtestus

Hi, Antone. Do you mean, what I like or how do I like to style it?
I like WP sites that are really fast, with minimum plugins, I prefer creating my own shortcodes or snippets, light theme, some whitespaces, to use golden ratio. Simple sites, not full of images or "things", easy to navigate sites.

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Antone

I just meant using WordPress as a whole. I'm only hand coding everything at this point.

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Wordpress as a whole is fine, but you`ll always need some edition, styling and maybe some snippet. But as an "all-in-one-ready-to-use" CMS, is awesome. With some practice you get a whole site+theme+sorporate edition+contnet in a few hours

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Antone

Thank you for your insight!

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Scott White

Hey All! I'm one of the co-founders of Monolist.co. We're a command center for engineers where you can manage pull requests, tickets, and alerts all from one place.

Excited to be part of the community!

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Hi Scott! Welcome! Does Monolist integrate with GitHub? Is there a free version for Open Source projects?

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Scott White

Hey Jacob – we do indeed! You can check out what all of our integrations do here: app.monolist.co/guest/integrations

If you'd like, I'd be happy to walk you through a demo! You can just email me at scott@monolist.co if you'd like to set something up.

Right now, we only have one pricing structure, but we're open to being flexible!

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ovlachi

Hi Everyone,

My name is George and I am a Frontend Developer and Designer. I am interested in learning more about semantic HTML, CSS, JavaScript, a11y and maybe later I will jump on a framework bandwagon (most likely Vue)...

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Chris Achard

Hi George! Welcome to DEV :) Good luck as you learn Vue!

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Sadick

Hi George welcome to the dev.to community.

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I know kung-fu

Hi George welcome and goodluck !

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Tomas Sirio

Hi George! welcome to the community

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Fern Williams

Hey everybody! I’m Fern and I’m a Junior Test Analyst who is aspiring to be a developer. I have knowledge with HTML, CSS. I also use SQL at work.
I’m new to the game but I have been practising little projects on my own laptop for about two years now... I want to focus on getting my confidence up with JavaScript.

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Helen Anderson

Welcome!

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Nick Taylor

Welcome to DEV! 👋

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Kumbi Madzinga

I was told I had to say 'hi' to at least one person. Hi!

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Peter David Carter • Edited

Hey all. My name's Peter and I'm a dev for a large education software company working on upgrading a legacy system to run on Angular, with NGRX state. I do some C# stuff for the backend as well. Just getting into security research...

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Peter Kim Frank

Welcome! Always great to have another "Peter" in the community :)

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Tunde Ajagbe

Hello Dev. I'm Tunde. I have some knowledge of the Java language, but I'm currently an intern at DevCareers where I'm learning web development with Node.js. I hope to learn more now that I've joined you here.

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BenR

Hey Tunde, looking forward to learning more Node too! The best to us both!

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Tunde Ajagbe

Thanks, BenR

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Tomas Sirio

Hey, good to know. I'm trying to expand my dev tools too

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Chris Achard

Welcome Tunde! Node is fun :) And DEV is a great place to learn!

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Tunde Ajagbe

Thank you Chris

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Jon Davis

Hi people. I'm way late.

21 yrs primarily on the Microsoft stack. I used to blog a lot, it was a popular blog. But it's long forgotten. I used to be involved in the local .NET community. It was a popular community. But my awkward presence made it wither and die years ago. LOL, kidding. Sort of.

sad tears 😥

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Jon! Maybe you can revive the blog a bit here :)

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Lucca Mello

Hey All,

My name's Lucca (yeah that song again). I'm Specialist Support Engineer @SAP hope learn a lot here and share great content!

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Lucca!

(What song?)

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marco

He lives upstairs from you.

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S.Panaligan

On the second floor...I guess he thinks you've seen him before...

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Chris Achard

Ok, Ok, I've found it 🤣🤣

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Null

I'm Shi. I like JS and JS accessories.

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Ben Lovy

A clean-burning programming language

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Chris Achard

JS accessories 😄 love it

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MaGoOoDy

Hi, I'm Maged, I'm from Sudan,from currently working as Electrical Engineer but I did learn HTML, CSS JavaScript and Android orogramming.

I'm been working Web development for about 2 years now. But I would like to start do some side projects in order to taper my skills.

Since I am being eorking alone for two years i have a lack of collaboration team skills and I would like to start participating in Open projects in GitHub..

My Dream is to Switch from the Engineering work to the Web Development field.

Hoping to learn more in this community

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Chris Achard

Hi Maged! Side projects are a great way to learn new things and figure out what you like to do. I love just playing around with new tech and ideas! Good luck with your career switch :)

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Hi everyone, my name is Harun. I work as a software developer in germany for about 3 years now. In the past i did some backend stuff with Java(Spring boot). Before that I builded PWA's / native android apps.
Now i want to learn more and start things in a side project to combine all the knowledge and experience i earned in the past. Also i'm into user behavior topics and user experience stuff.

I wanted to join a community and connect with others, just to see how it goes and maybe find like minded people and learn new things.

Thanks for reading and have a nice day =)

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Chris Achard

Hi Harun! This is a great community for connecting with others :) You have a nice day as well!

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Dandy Milton • Edited

Hi All, I'm Dandy, I'm python programmer. my work is (mostly) in backend, but I also try to explore small part of natural language processing for career purpose, I'm not professional programmer but, it would be a next step in my career.

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bonniepeters • Edited

Hello All! My name is Bonnie Peters and I am currently a software development immersive student with General Assembly(GA). When I'm not learning new tech, you can find me exploring new places, trying new things, and engaging new people and cultures.

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BenR

Hey Bonnie! I'm a student over at Lambda School. The best to us both in our studies!

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Juan J. Mendoza • Edited

Hello everyone, my name’s Juan.

I’m currently a senior at the University at Buffalo pursuing a B.Sc in Computer Science, and I’m an aspiring Software Engineer. I primarily program in Python, though I’ve dabbled with Java, C++, and JS. I’m interested in Machine Learning, developing Mobile Apps, Web Development, and growing as a developer and contributor to the dev. community.

Currently prepping for job interviews in the pursuit of a junior/new grad position or internship. 👋🏽☺️

Github:
github.com/JuanJMendoza

LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/in/juanjmendoza/

Twitter:
twitter.com/TheJuanJMendoza

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Juan! Good luck on your last year of school, and on job interviews! What type of position interesting you the most? Big company? Small company? What tech?

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Juan J. Mendoza

Thank you Chris! Ideally a new grad SWE position at small - medium sized company where I can make a difference and learn a bit of everything. I’d love to work with mobile development as the features on mobile devices, in my opinion, have a direct and immediate impact on the user and I’d like to experience that impact. How was your experience as a developer when you first started out? Do you have any tips or advice you wish you had before you started?

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Chris Achard

Sounds great - I highly recommend small/medium sized companies, because you can get a feel for more than just your tiny little slice of a product or feature.

I have a few pieces of advice for new devs:

  • It will feel hard: That's normal, and means you're learning. Lean into that difficult feeling, because when you push through it you'll feel great - you've accomplished something, and learned it in the process, and next time it will be easier

  • Celebrate small wins: It's normal and ok to feel awesome when you get something small and silly to to work! You should celebrate the small wins because that gives you the energy to push through the harder times

  • Impostor syndrome is real: At times (or all the time!) you'll feel like you really don't know what you're doing - and everyone else does - and that you're hopelessly stuck or lost... but just because you're learning new things, doesn't mean you don't know anything! Look back on what you do know, so you can see how far you've come. You know more than you think :)

Hope that helps! I should probably write a whole post about "how to be a new dev", because I have a lot more to say :) Good luck!

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Juan J. Mendoza

I will remember this, thank you so much!

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Richard Igbiriki • Edited

Hi! I am not a cat...if I was, I'd say "Hi! I am a cat"

I am not a cat, I am Richard. Nice to meet you all, in the near future when you respond.

I joined DEV because I was about to write a simple tutorial on testing React components for the guys that work with me. I am a Full-stack developer (JS, React, React Native, Firebase, Ruby on Rails, C++). I mostly build for fun.

Fun fact, I always have an idea on how to solve a problem using tech a few minutes after encountering the problem. Else, I am unable to eat or do anything else.

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Ayobami Adedapo

What is FS sir?

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Richard Igbiriki

Hi, Full-stack. I have edited the original post. Thanks!

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Youssef Belyazidi

Hi guys,
I'm Youssef. I'm a MERN stack developer and i want to learn lot of thinks in dev.to and know new peoples

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Youssef!

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Youssef Belyazidi

Thank you Chris

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Oluwatosin Fetuga

Hi, i am Tosin, been busy with everything javascript both backend and frontend(html and css, angular framework). My desire is to solve complex problems with my stack and build great tech that help people and organizations

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Chris Achard

Hi Tosin - welcome to DEV! You're exactly right: there's nothing more satisfying than solving a really complex problem that helps a bunch of people :)

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Oluwatosin Fetuga

Thanks Chris, so cool to be here.

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Erik Ahumada

Hey guys, My name is Erik and I'm a frontend developer. Hope to learn and share :-)

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Chris Achard

Hi Erik, good to meet you!

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Casper

Hello I'm Casper. I'm a CS student, 2nd year. I'm mainly interested in functional programming, but I enjoy most types of programming. I usually work in F# or C#, but I'm very eager to learn Haskell once I get some spare time. I've been lurking here for a few weeks and found tons of interesting articles, felt it was about time I signed up.

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Ahmed Tharwat

Hello, I'm Ahmed. I'm a computer science fresh graduate, and currently working as a junior software engineer, and specified more in fullstack web development, using TypeScript. I'm also passionated about game development, and started to learn unity recently. I've joined here to gain more knowledge about all what is related to the CS field, as I want to increase my personal curiosity.

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Chris Achard

What types of games do you want to develop? Good luck in your new job!

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Ahmed Tharwat

Thanks so much Chris! <3. I wanna start with 2D games, then after I feel comfortable with the concepts, I may start with 3D games.

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Muhammad-Mouta

Hi there, I'm Muhammad, a computer engineering student who is disappointed with the level of education he is receiving in college. So, I decided to have it all done on my own and self educate myself. Took CS50 and I'm quite enthusiast about algorithms. Dunno what path I should take but I'm just learning algorithms for now.

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Chris Achard

I Muhammad! Algorithms is a good place to start and get a good background. After that, I would recommend starting to just play with different technologies on small toy problems - you'll start to see what you like and don't like, and you can extend your learning from there :)

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jitendrasaroj93 • Edited

Hi, myself Jitendra,
I'm currently working as Project Lead, mainly work in front end developer. I love programming and enjoy learning more.
I have expert knowledge in HTML CSS and JavaScript. My favorite is JavaScript. I have experience in angular, jQuery and ReactJs. Currently I'm working in my favorite ReactJs.

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Chris Achard

React is my favorite too! Nice to meet you Jitendra :)

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jitendrasaroj93

Hi Chris,
Nice to meet you. Yes it's pretty awesome

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BenR

Howdy! I'm a student at Lambda School. I love having the chance to spend a ton of time in React, Node, and any other part of the JS ecosystem I can get my hands on. I love love love design (particularly typography) but I cannot draw and will spend hours tweaking the same hex code. Am developer, not designer lol.

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Chris Achard

Hi Ben! How do you like Lambda School?

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BenR • Edited

I really love it. I'm a full-stack web student, and my experience has been wonderful. The staff are all helpful and enabling, the student body is mostly really focused, the pace is intense, and the materials have been fairly extensive considering the time-frame we're working on. I'd completed a few helpful (but not very comprehensive) tutorial-style react/node courses online in the past, but just in the last 3 months my understanding of Javascript and its ecosystem has grown exponentially. I would absolutely recommend anyone with a work ethic sign up for Lambda School. (disclaimer: I am coming from an other-than-technical career background and JS is my first programming language, results may vary)

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Chris Achard

That's awesome :) Glad the experience has been good for you!

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Donald LeBlanc • Edited

Hi all

I'm a front-end developer into Angular8 and Stenciljs.
I'm looking into building a library of Web Components with Stenciljs.
Anybody have nice components build with Stencil, let me know ;-)

Let me know some cool stuff if you have or tips.

thanks,
Donald

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Donald! I don't have any Stencil components, but just thought I'd say hi :)

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Donald LeBlanc

Hi,
Thanks a lot to say hi.
Are you using Stenciljs?
Are you doing front-end programming and what are you using?
Donald

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Chris Achard

Not using Stenciljs - mostly React :)

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Lih-Farn Soong

Hi, this is Lih. I developed enterprise solution using Visual Studio for almost 20 years. Starting from Microsoft ASP and ADO, I am still very interesting to use Microsoft technology to develop the solution, currently we use Angular, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core in my developing team. Personally I am try to implement Blazor. I am also company's DevOp lead to manage Azure DevOp server. I hope I could communicate with some interesting people in this community.

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Lih!

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Pramod Kamble

Hi,to all dev community.i am pramod.i have just completed my diploma in computer engineering.
I knew some programming languages such as c,c++,ds,Java,html,css, JavaScript,python. but i am more interested in learning java programs and making web applications.

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Chris Achard

Welcome to the community Pramod! I love making web apps :) Good luck in your coding journey!

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Jonathan Bouligny

Hi! Im Jonathan. Im a recent computer science grad looking for jobs and my main interests are web development and blockchain tech. Im an outgoing kinda guy and love to learn. Glad to meet everyone!

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Ben Halpern

Great to have you Jonathan! Feel free to check out listings to post a forhire listing 😄

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Jonathan Bouligny

Most definitely well check it out thank you!

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Chris Achard

Good luck on your job search! Welcome to DEV :)

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flight_1

Hello, Im Charles . Im working as a front end developer and i really like what i do, its become a passion and hobby at this point, my framework of choice is vue js, i can literally design and implement any feature given to me on the front end. Im currently looking for a job in this field and would be grateful if someone can grant it. Ill take any form of design and/or functional test for it to show i'm capable

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Chris Achard

Hi Charles! I don't know of a job opening, but I just wanted to say good luck :)

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flight_1

thanks

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BenR

I'm on the job hunt too Charles. Wishing us both the best in our search!

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Tonida Baraza

Hey all. My name is Tonida. I am a Javascript developer.
I am looking forward to knowledge sharing and collaboration opportunities.

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Hello ! Tonida

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Chris Achard

Welcome Tonida!

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Tonida Baraza

Thank you

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MrMichele

Hi I am Michele a self taught web developer, been in the industry for only 10 months at the moment, I have learnt HTML CSS and JS so far, heading for my first framework very soon.

I hope that soon I will get my first job in the Industry.

My Portfolio : newbiewebdev.github.io/Portfolio-M...

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Chris Achard

Nice start! Welcome to DEV Michele :) Good luck with the job hunt!

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lmind

Hey all. I'm John. I've been in the IT sector going on 20 years now. Love all things Open Source, smiley, lounging sloths, AWS, and anything that improves efficiency. Just learned about this community after complaining to a colleague about Medium.com's pervasive popups. I love sharing what I've learned as much as learning and I'm trying to change the perception of what non-Linux folks' perception is of Linux users, one kind response at a time. Thanks for having me and I hope to contribute something useful soon!

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Chris Achard

Hi John! Yes, Medium is really... subpar when it comes to dev articles, heh (that's what drove me here too) - so welcome to DEV!

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sdcaulley

I am a U.S. Army veteran turned full-stack JavaScript developer. I see development to be a satisfying challenge for my problem solving personality. I recently participated in a hackathon where my team's project won the "Social Impact" prize. I am currently doing a deep dive in Nodejs and reading up on Web Components.

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV! Did you learn anything in the Army that helps with being a developer? Also: what was the project that won the prize?

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sdcaulley

Army - not specifically. However, it was while I was in the Army that I was introduced to Linux and the concept of open source by a fellow soldier. That introduction started me down that path that led to becoming a developer.

Prize project - a web site that that uses the City of Austin's affordable housing API to search for housing using zip code, number of household members and adjusted income as the criteria. The repo is here: github.com/social-housing/affordab...

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Chris Achard

Neat project :) Thanks for sharing

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aleki-musyoki

Hey there, Alexander here
Just read the recent article on "Four Things in coding careers I wish I knew starting my CS major"(Great article btw!) and realized I had impostor syndrome so I felt like this would be a place where I could learn and connect and be understood especially as a newbie programmer. I do web and android development and looking to expand my understanding both in my specialisation and in the field of IT as a career.

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Chris Achard

Hi Alexander! Yes, impostor syndrome is pervasive and hard to shake. So welcome to DEV! This is a great place to learn and connect, and hopefully get rid of that impostor feeling :)

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aleki-musyoki

Thanks Chris. Much appreciated and thanks again for the warm welcome....

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Fernando Montalvo

Hi all, I'm Fernando, I'm a frontend developer trying to keep up with the plethora of UI libraries, I use mainly Angular but I find interesting trying and testing other frameworks as well. Happy to have found what looks like a very nice community

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Calleb Joel Miquissene

Hi, I'm Calleb. I'm Mozambican 🦁! I started programming last year (2018) and fell in love with Mobile Programming in the same year. Since there, I started learning about it. Actually I program to Android using Kotlin. I have some Dart&Flutter knowledge, but I want to be great at Kotlin. I hope I can Learn more here, and share with you the things I know!

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Ryan Herter

Hello Everyone, My name is Ryan I built my first game on construct.net and now I want to do the same on a website, recently after searching I found glitch.com and now I'm learning lots about javascript and more about css, I am no Professional in any way, it seems the more I learn the more I discover that I don't know. Someday I'd love to study a-frame.io aka Virtual Reality.

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Chris Achard

Hello Ryan! Sounds like you're on a great learning path 😄 Good luck with your future projects!

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Vinícius Gomes

Hello everyone! I was an English teacher for some time but that was never enough. Also, I've always been keen on tech and one day I decided to go back to college and study coding. I'm presently studying to be a front-end dev, but I'm still not so sure about it...

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Vinícius - good luck learning! What aren't you sure about?

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jennajlee92

Hey, I'm Jenna.

I've been an English teacher in South Korea for 3 years now, and I've decided to switch careers to software engineering. I'm working with a coworker to learn for free online via Berkeley's online CS61A course and freeCodeCamp. I also just joined GitHub, Stack Overflow, and DEV community, but I am still very much a noob.

I hope to meet some people who are also learning so we can synergize and get better quicker! I'm also hoping to transition into a software job by 2020.

Suuuper excited to get started!

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Deepak Choudhary • Edited

Hey, My Self Deepak Choudhary. I want to connect with Coders, Developers and Tech Enthusiast.
I love to Discuss C and its complex program. I want to know all the minor tracing which we skip in daily life programing.
And UX & UI of this platform(Dev.to) is ANT-SHANT...

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Maurice Ituriu • Edited

Hi, I'm Maurice from Kenya. Pure happenstance that I'm here... went down a Google rabbit hole and as they say, 'the rest is in history...' HaHa! I'm a full-stack developer who is settling into front-end development. I'm presently dabbling in Vue.js and relearning JavaScript (ES6 syntax). I'm hoping to learn a lot from the dev community here.

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luca cruciani

Hi, i'm Luca. I'm a software developer and in the last months i'm practicing on end-to-end software testing techiques and framework (Selenium Web Driver and Cypress.io).
I like writing articles and blog post about various topics (coding, seminar, agile, scrum...)...only in italian at the moment.
Maybe I'll write a little something in English ;)

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Samson Ludo • Edited

Hello, Samson Ludo here! Software engineer with 1+ years experience in Front-end development (Bootstrap & React) and Wolfram Programming. I desire to deepen my understanding in these areas while learning about the backend (MongoDB and Node.js). I will be sharing anecdotes on my journey and knowledge in my technical expertise. Do well to follow! 😆👍

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barnysanchez

New here. I work as an architect at IBM for security related matters. I deal with code and architectures all day, and I am versed enough to understand, describe, suggest, secure a lot of our work. While over the years I have done development in different languages and at different levels of complexity, I figure that is time I spend some time working on an end-to-end "hello-world" type scenario to put together a whole CI/CD pipeline together and all of the pieces that are needed (containers, code, K8, Jenkins, etc). I want to do this to improve my skills but also to get other people ramped up quicker. When I google searched the concept, I came up with a post of another DEV user here that posted something very similar, so that made me want to join this community.

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Calvin Carlos da Conceição Chiulele

Hi everyone, I'm Calvin. I'm here at dev.to to get closer to great minds and learn everything that I can. I'm currently attending B.S of Administration of systems and Networks, but I'm more related to software development. I've been participating in some project with cool developers from Mozambique and it would be a great opportunity to work with others developers from another countries. I'm a software developer, so I don't have any favorite programming language but I mostly use PHP and Laravel as the framework. I'm learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails to expand my knowledge and I plan to learn C/C++ soon.

Happy to be part of dev.to.

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Karthik_Mns

Can anyone help me with ML project ideas and code for final year project

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Chris Achard

What are you interested in with ML? What type of topics do you care about? A year long project will go a lot smoother if you actually enjoy the topic 😅

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Karthik_Mns

I just need a project related to the agriculture or medicine or environment which can be done in 3 months max

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Chris Achard

I would start with datasets - what do you have available to you? The dataset is the hardest part (often), so look for good, clean, large datasets and start from there.

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Thomas Powell • Edited

Hi, I'm Thomas. I've officially been software engineering manager for about 1 year. Before that I was a Ruby on Rails dev for 6 years and C/C++/C#/Java dev for 16 years from co-op to senior software engineer.

I'm currently playing with Rust, Python, DevOps, Raspberry Pi and learning about SRE—and whatever else distracts me in a given week. (Also human languages—Polish because of my team members, but also whatever I add to Duolingo or buy a grammar book on.)

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Sagar Manjare

Hi everyone! Sagar here from Mumbai, India. Senior Software Engineer working in an E-commerce company. I have been doing Python for 3 years now and have also worked on Angular as a Full Stack person. Looking forward to the dev.to community.

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Argenis Gomez

Hi, I'm Argenis.
Currently working as CTO helping to build a Rails monolith for wakuy.com.
I decided to jump in into this community because already a couple of posts saved me many work hours fixing bugs.

I expect to learn new things until the day I finally die, I think this community looks like a nice place to do just that.

My areas of interest are related to web apps developed around Rails (ruby, javascript, databases, devops).

Additionally interested in machine learning, chatbots and blockchain.

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Hammad Jutt

Yo! I'm Hammad, I'm a freelance designer / developer / consultant that builds full stack web and mobile apps. Huge interest in Blockchain, AI and FP. Currently learning Solidity for Ethereum development and ReasonML! Expert in React / ReactNative / Redux / TypeScript / GraphQL / DevOps etc.

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Hammad! What do you think fo GraphQL vs normal REST? Is it worth it?

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Victor Villalobos

Hi, I'm Victor, I'm currently working in a company as a software engineer, I read a publication of "101 tips to be a great programmer (and human)", I like it, so I created my account, I want to meet people. Ihave experience in Angular, Net.Core, Net Framework, JavaScript, JQuery etc. Thanks for read me

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Chris Achard

Welcome Victor! Nice to meet you.

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Jonathan Schneider

Hi there,
I'm Jonathan and a freelance Dev. My first open source project has just seen its release (trying to make frontend development easier) and it seems I've fallen into the "build it and they will come" trap. As developers, I think we all enjoy uninterrupted, highly concentrated hours of learning about a problem deeply, checking previous solutions and then finding the missing bits. Now I am leaving this serenity to learn what else it takes for a project to succeed =)
So I thought I might join Dev.to...

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Chris Achard

Ah yes, build it and they will come .... :)

Well welcome to DEV Jonathan! This would be a great place to blog about your open source project, and see if anyone is interested.

Also: you don't just have to blog about what it does: you can blog about what you learned while building it, what you learned while marketing it, the tools that you used to build it, etc.

Good luck!

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Mauricio Benjamin Jimenez Ramirez

Hi there! I'm Mauricio. I'm cultural heritage conservator, but when I was a kid started to coding in BASIC. 35 years after here I am, trying to update my knowledge after a few years as Linux user and some experience with data mining and HTML. At the beginning I only thinking this space as a learning opportunity, but you know, the best way to learn is teaching, and I hope to share in some point.

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Kaushal Mehta

Hi, I'm Kaushal. I'm a Computer Science Student. I love to build real-world web and mobile apps. And here I am in This amazing DEV Community Looking forward to Expanding my knowledge in this digital world

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Juan Alejandro Morais

Hi all, I'm Juan. Born in Panama, now residing in New Zealand, I started a career in game development, and am now exploring the field of data analytics. Transitioning from game programming into data engineering at my workplace, I have been learning a lot about both of these worlds! My knowledge on web technologies is very small, but it's growing fast, and I'm absolutely loving this world!

Just a few weeks ago I made my first PR (Although very small) and that got me excited. I hope to share knowledge and experiences with all of you - This community looks beyond amazing! :D

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Chris Achard

Nice to meet you Juan! I like this community as well :) It's a great place to keep learning!

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Juan Alejandro Morais

Hi Chris, nice to meet you as well! Loved your posts on react - Very helpful for a newbie like me.

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Doug Montgomery

Hello everyone I'm Doug, some call me Douglife!

I've been on the web for over 20 years now, with this being my first website - web.archive.org/web/20000604011912...

I am currently a LAMP developer for a large company in Central Florida looking to switch to JS and specifically Vue as I've found PHP a bit lacking as I lean towards SPA and PWA projects.

I'm hoping to add to this community as I've already gained so much, and I'm excited to learn about all of you and your projects!

Cheers and a pleasure to meet all of you!

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Chris Achard

Ah, what a classic first website :)

Welcome to DEV Doug!

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Guilherme Marthe

Hey folks!
My name is Guilherme ( my name is the Brazilian version of William!) and I am Data Scientist here in Brazil.

I have a bachelors degree in economics and did 3 years of statistics before dropping out.
I mainly work in Python and R now a days, but I have worked in C (for two classes, algorithms and Graph algorithms), Rust and a little Go.

I work at a fintech (personal loans) here in Brazil, developing and deploying the credit scoring system used by the app.

I'm a Linux and Vim user for a while now, since I learned to program when I was 15, and pretty much love using the computer as productively as I can.
I also hate not know what my system is doing, that is why I migrated from windows completely a few years ago.

Lately I've been meaning to become a better programmer in order to get some ideas I have out of paper.
Some of them revolve around parsing and normalising server logs of online games that I like in order to build some analytical tools around them.
If you know something about that, lets talk!!

Cheers,

Gui!

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Chris Achard

Welcome Gui! I'm not sure I can help with parsing and normalising server logs - but good luck with your project!

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Irfan Rosly

Hi, I'm Irfan. Currently React and React Native developer. Focusing on JavaScript and aiming to become JavaScript fullstack developer. A friends recommend me to this and I think I will not only go for JavaScript now. There's no limit for learning right. :)

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Irfan! How do you like React Native? Any big problems recently, or has it been smooth for you?

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Gobkin

Hi!

I am Roman. I am currently in my final weeks of A web-dev bootcamp. Will be starting search for my first dev job in about 10 days. It is all pretty exciting and frightening in the same time. I feel like I have solid understanding of react basics but would like to learn more advanced concepts via personal project work. Any suggestions of fun projects that will help me learn?

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Jonathan Schneider

Hi Roman, I think because react hooks is pretty new it can help you to learn both hooks and the "old" life cycle methods. How state and props play together is important to build efficient components, and this has changed over time, and you will probably stumble upon it in a lot of old code. So if you understand when and why you should not use getderivedstatefromprops() and how componentwillreceiveprops() has been used it's really helpful, since that's a source for many bugs

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Joëlle

Hi Everyone, happy to join this community. I'm currently a new implementations project manager at a hospitality company. I am looking to become a full stack developer and I am doing advanced CSS right now. I self learning and using a combination of Udemy courses and reading to get myself up to speed.

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Eric Artzt

Hello all, I am Eric. Refugee from Twitter here looking to stay connected in a more positive way to tech themes and updates.

I am a full-stack developer, 5+ year employee of Avalara. Currently working on tech related to EMEA business registration and VAT reporting. Recently been implementing analytics solutions using Snowflake and AWS lambda's.

Used to work on ambitious EmberJS apps at Avalara. Not doing Ember at work currently but I have side projects, notably github.com/artzte/tinysis-ui.

Anyone else using Ubuntu as their development environment?

When I am afk you can find me riding bikes, running kids around town, or swinging swords.

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Chris Achard

Hi Eric! Welcome to DEV. This is a good refuge from twitter :) The community is generally calm and kind here; I love it!

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toandinh18 • Edited

Hi everyone,
I am Toan and I am just put my first step in the way become DEV. So I really happy to have a chance to introduce myself also to learn from a lot of awesome guy in this community. Thanks and have a nice day!!!

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Chris Achard

Good luck on your coding adventure! And welcome to DEV :) It's a great place to learn

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vikas sudan

Hi, I am vikas sudan, I am digital marketing expert, i have 5 yrs experience in same filed. I have some HTML and CSS knowledge, but I want to move in coding part. I am learning PhP and jave script in my working days.

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Chris Achard

Hi Vikas - Good luck with learning more coding! DEV is a great place to hang out and get better at programming :)

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MikeMcHaney

Hi all, I am Mike. I came across a thread regarding using Web Components versus the many JS frameworks that arrive over the years. I am curious about the direction of web technology, try to stay in step with it, and wish to grow my competencies in both coding and making suggestions to my team when necessary.

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Jim Sulit

Hi, I'm Jimson. Currently employed as a Data Scientist and keen on exploring my options with data engineering and product management. My interest revolves around using data to impact people and how they live life. I am also quite interested in continuing learning full-stack Javascript, which I last did three years ago.

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Chris Achard

Welcome Jimson! What type of Data Science do you do?

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Tyrus Malmström
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My name is Tyrus, however I also go Ti! 👔

I've been programming ever since I was 6 and I can't stop. My first program was a bot that I created for the free MMORPG game called RuneScape. I created it so that I could keep up with my friends' accounts, since I was allocated a certain amount of time every day after school -- and my friends weren't 😂.

Anyways, I am happy to be part of this community and I appreciate the opportunity to join!

I am currently a Full-Stack developer, however I specialize in the Front-End (so pretty much a Front-End developer 😊)

Ever since I graduated college and got a full-time job in this industry, I haven't been able to focus on my personal projects however that's going to change.

An interesting / fun fact about me, is that I'm a quadruplet!

Warmest regards,
Tyrus Malmstrom.

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Nikos Lazidis

I am a 40 year developer with experience in Delphi,c# and the last 2 years JavaScript typescript and bootstrap which I really enjoy!! Despite my age I still enjoy programming and learning new fascinating frameworks!! I love to share my experiences with other developers!! Thank you very much for this exciting community

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Alessandro Fragnani

Welcome to DEV Nikos!

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Jared

Howdy! I'm Jared and I've been a web dev for about 4 years now...ish. Joinging Dev.to mainly because it pops up in my Google feed every day haha. I've been writing on medium, but figured I'd try it out over here.

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Bax

Hello, I am a crazy developer of web technologies and have been doing this for a while. I recently discovered FP and now I feel like I'm starting over as a newb on that front. I feel happy to have discovered this place and I'm excited about getting to know you guys !

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Leslie Nowicki

Hello, I am Leslie. I currently work on program management for a large company. I used to be a C developer long time ago. And more recently worked on some Java projects. I found this community while searching for information on microServices. I'd like to gain some practical knowledge/skills on cloud technologies.

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Donovan Brown

Hello fellow Devs, I'm Donovan I am a Computer Support Technician turned Web Developer who is currently learning PWA's and Reactjs. I work full-time as a Front-End Web Developer for a Digital Agency, I recently joined a startup part-time that is being built from the ground up and I volunteer teaching kids basic coding skills for a non-profit organization. Looking to keep my skills sharp as a Developer.