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Hey, ๐ I'm Ziga, a physicist ๐ฌ , self-thought coder, from Europe, Slovenia ๐ธ๐ฎ. I am looking forward to sharing my experience from data analysis in C++ and python.
Since last year I've been exploring web stack and vanilla coding. So if there's anyone interested in software with a minimal amount of code let me know ๐
Hello, Ziga!! Anywho, a physicist and a programmer? That's cool. I'll definitely let you know in term of interest in software. I'm currently a beginner in Javascript. Are you an expect in it?
You should check out You Dont Know JS (it is free). The author is currently writing the second edition but the first edition is still a good resource.
A book series on JavaScript. @YDKJS on twitter.
You Don't Know JS Yet (book series) - 2nd Edition
This is a series of books diving deep into the core mechanisms of the JavaScript language.
To read more about the motivations and perspective behind this book series, check out the Preface.
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Mozilla Developer Network is also a great resource.
This is the awesome book to stick with.
I love JavaScript too. :-)
Hey, me too, I'm also a recent learner of ECMAScript 6, let me know if we can work together. :)
Hey. Thanks for the reply.
No I'm not an expert in JavaScript sorry. Though I know my way around. I learned a lot about JS from gomakethings.com newsletter written by Chris Ferdinandi. Check it out it's free.
Hope that helps. Otherwise shoot me a PM ๐ Oh and this might be interesting Analytics with Vanilla JS
Hey, I'm a beginner at javascript too!
Very much interested
Cool. Which part. So I know what to write about first ๐
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Hey, Ziga. Currently, i am learning webD. How to move ahead and create good websites?
Hey
Good websites is a wide question so ... What's a good website by your standards :)
I would start by learning basic HTML and CSS then try to build a simple web site using a CSS framework. A quick google search should reveal a few ;)
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Hey Ziga! Nice to meet you.
Hey, there!
I am a full-stack JavaScript engineer with 9-year experience and CEO at CreativeIT, a software development company in Belarus. Iโm responsible for technical consulting, negotiating with customers, and managing our team.
Also, I'm an active contributor to open-source and am proud that many of our products have plenty of stars on GitHub.
Here Iโm going to create my own blog, share my expertise with you, discuss tech issues, and exchange ideas. Hope, I will be welcomed and become a great part of this community.)
There is an organization called CreativIT in my city :D But they are a non-profit umbrella association made by lots of software developer companies.
Does not hard to be a CEO as a technical person? Do not you take part too much in the technical decisions?
The delegation of tasks and team management help me in this issue)
Belarus? Are you located in Minsk?
Yes
Hello, thats super great.
Thank you!)
Hi I'm Mohamed from Paris, I'd like to know how you changed from development to consulting? Did you do write an article about that? What are the requirements for a technical consultant?
Hi, nice to meet you! I haven't changed: having over 9 years of experience in software development, in my company I'm responsible for managing the team and consulting on technical issues. I have a lot of expertise and knowledge regarding programming, solving business challenges, and helping clients to achieve their goals. This helps me provide great service.) Now, I'm also going to create and publish articles here (before I wrote several posts for our company's blog).
Hi! My name is Krystal. Took my first coding class just last month. New to coding, enrolled in a bootcamp. Want to use knowledge to create apps! Excited to be here.
Good for you! I'm also just starting my journey - week six of a 28 week program. Best of luck and hope you're having as much fun as I am.
That's so awesome!!! One month in is so much fun.
Great! This is just the beginning. I hope you enjoy each day while growing as programmer. Best of luck. Mate!
Hey Krystal, welcome to the code world ๐
Awesome welcome to the community Krystal! :)
Hi Krystal!
Awesome Krystal, good luck on your journey!
Hi Dev community! This is Bhagyashree. I am a Computer engineer turned into developer into mom into Founder into freelance wordpress developer into a student who wants to be a Full stack developer. ๐ I am currently building my side project in MERN stack. I am also founder/developer of regional community maitrin.com which is specifically built for women who speak/read Marathi language. Itโs built on drupal cms and it has been very popular in regional community. We currently have 1250+ registered users and about 30million page views. I love to build new things and learn new technologies. I will be looking for full time opportunities in LA or remote soon. But the imposter syndrome is very real! ๐I never feel ready. One thing that kinda dragged me down personally was getting my son diagnosed with autism. He is 9 year old and non verbal but communicates so much through his eyes! ๐ It was a very difficult journey getting back from the dark place and start having dreams about working full time again. But will get there I guess. Oh yeah, I also love to write. But I havenโt really written anything related to technology except this essay right here. ๐ Hoping to start my blogging journey here.
Welcome to the community, Bhagyashree!
I live with ADHD, and I'm raising a teenage girl with ADHD. You will find so many in the community that can relate to your challenges on some level. I wish you the best on your journey!
Thank you so much Jesse! I was wondering this, and thought we should have a group of parents of special needs kids. I created a list on twitter for this purpose. twitter.com/i/lists/11950491702240...
Let me know if anyone want to be added there.
Welcome to DEV Bhagyashree! Looking forward to your future posts! ๐
Thanks Nick! I am about to buy my first Macbook and was just now reading your post about setup. :) I might start commenting there once I am done with setup.
Hi! I'm working on a new product. Aspirational goal is to have zero servers (all Lambdas, event driven) and low cost data storage(S3, Aurora, etc). The back end part has been fun so far, but I got pulled in into the front end as well (React, Material, etc). Lots of learning on this front, this is what brought me here ...
'Pulled into the front end' - very relatable :)
Welcome to a brilliant community!
pulled into frontend
Same story here. Good luck!
Hello everyone,
my name is Marcel and I'm a frontend dev since display:grid was still named table layout ๐
I'm usually a lurker on social platforms, however I'm starting to post more regularly to share my knowledge and to stay connected with designer and developer.
Currently I'm publishing plentiful on codepen and rgb.wiki. In case you have any ideas or wishes about topics you want to read about, I'll always value direct feedback from the community.
Looking forward to it!:)
If you have many pens on CodePen, you can write tutos/explanations of your code. Don't be afraid to post short content. Just post! It will improve enormously your capacity to explain topics :D
Welcome to DEV!
You are right, that's a great idea. I've even gotten requests for tutorials of my pens, it would fit well with what I'm already writing.
Thank you for the welcome!
Just a silly thing, but I found your avatar really cute!
Haha yes I do like it as well ๐ It's from the game Yoshi's Island, its whole art style is charming.
Hello!
I'm Olga from Russia. Discovered DEV community after participating at Hacktoberfest this year.
Last 7 years working remotely using Python as a primary programming language.
Happy to join you, folks :)
Hello Olga, I discovered the DEV community from hacktoberfest as well. I couldn't have a DEV sticker on my laptop without being a member of the community. :D
just stated learning python and want to see where this leads me.
Hi Olga, I hope to see your sharing of experience in python and others!
๐ Hello everyone, I'm Petar a full stack web developer and pen tester, looking forward to sharing some of my insights on building and securing your web applications or websites!
The last few years I've been focused on building intranet web apps and hardening client facing portals, oh and some cool automation ๐ค.
I've avoided open source contributions and knowledge sharing far too long, looking forward to start contributing!๐
Welcome
Hi! I'm Oleksandra. Learning webDev and writing about my way in twitter as karskaya and instagram as karskaya.dev. Let's connect and inspire each other!
Be welcome :)
Hi Oleksandra! Nice to e-meet you :)
Welcome to the community, Oleksandra!
Hey everyone! My name is Christian and I'm a self taught Software Engineer. I just got my first full-time software engineering job and I'm starting on December 2nd 2019. Working with JavaScript for the last two years has made it my language of choice, but I love learning new languages and technologies. This week I stared my journey to learn C# and .NET since my new job requires me to learn it, but I'm very excited about it because I've wanted to learn C# for awhile now.
Congratulations on the job dude!! Good luck :)
Dude! Congratulations. I am just beginning the self taught Soft Eng. thing now. How did you get started?
My situation was very unique; I was working as a Reconditioning Manager at a car dealership, and we just started doing rentals on the side. I had been doing a lot of programming since I was 13 so I decided to make some web tools to help manage the rentals. The rentals became very profitable so the little car dealership converted to a rental car company completely and the owner asked me to design their website and build their internal tools.
I did that for about 2 years and I learned a lot. I also had a paid internship as a web developer for 3 months right before I got my current job. When I was job searching a really wished I would have gotten a degree. A lot of jobs that I wanted to apply for asked for one, but looking back on it over 90% of the companies I applied at gave me an interview because I had some experience.
The #1 thing that will get you hired over someone with a CS degree is experience. So my advise would be to go build things. Start with things that either interest you or are useful to you, maybe something that will help you be more efficient at your current job if possible.
thank you for your response. I agree with what you are saying: build things ('build them and they will hire you') Could make a new
field of dreams' movie,computer of dreams'. build the programs and they will come'. Ghosts of Steve Jobs, von Neumann, George Boole all appearing.Some comments may only be visible to logged-in visitors. Sign in to view all comments.