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Welcome Thread - v70

hello world computer

Welcome to DEV!

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

  2. Reply to someone's comment, either with a question or just a hello. 👋

Great to have you in the community!

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Anna Wijetunga

Oh hi there! This has been a long time coming, and I'm so happy to be on here. I'm thiiiiis close to graduating from Flatiron and starting the next chapter of continued learning and job hunting. Looking forward to contributing my newbie thoughts here and reading what others have to say!

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Aaron McCollum

Congrats on graduating Flatiron! What was your experience like there?

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Anna Wijetunga

Hi Aaron! Thanks so much, and thanks for asking! It was a whirlwind - went by so quickly, learned way more than I thought possible, and now I have a solid foundation of Ruby, JavaScript and quite a few frameworks. There will ALWAYS be more to learn, but Flatiron really set me up for success. If you have more q's, always happy to chat further - let me know!

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Aaron McCollum

For sure! Thinking about something like that in the future. I will message you.

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Aaron McCollum

Actually I cannot chat you on here - not sure why. Anyways was wondering what got you interested in Flatiron and how you made it happen.

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Anna Wijetunga

I was wondering! I thought, wow I had no idea we could dm here :) I just followed you on Twitter, so once we're following each other, we can dm there! So happy to share more about Flatiron and hear what you're up to!

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Delivce Ndegwa

Wow congratulations!

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Anna Wijetunga

Thank you, thank you!

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Travis

How did you start and what's your advice to me. M new to front end web Dev. M currently practicing HTML and wish to become a professional developer for both Mobile Apps and websites.Haven't been to any educational institution for this.

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Anna Wijetunga

Hi Travis! Sounds like you're doing the right thing - practicing. Exactly how I started, too. I dabbled with freeCodeCamp to make sure I enjoyed learning to code, and from there, pursued formal education to keep myself focused and honest. Here's hoping you continue practicing and learning!

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Nick Taylor

Welcome to DEV!

Spiderman swinging by to say hello

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Anna Wijetunga

Ha ha, thank you so much!

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sarahwise

Hello! Congratulations on graduating!!

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Anna Wijetunga

Hi! Thank you so, so much!

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Ayebidun Ezekiel

Hello

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MukhammadUmar Mukhammadzoda

Hi

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Katie Nelson

Hi everyone, I'm Katie the #welcome moderator.
My unofficial title: DEV cheerleader 😊

I want to welcome all of you to the DEV community and let you know that you'll find lots of help and support here for all your coding needs.

Don't hesitate to ask questions or contribute new ideas with your own post.
If you are interested in posting, be sure to read my post:

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Sidibe

Hi here, I'm Mohamed I'm new here I like the developer job, but i know almost nothing about it, actually I'm beginning with html and css. Please someone can help me and advise. Thanks ☺️

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Angelo Hulshout 🇮🇹 🇳🇱

My advice: don’t do it, run away!
No seriously, go for it and take it step by step.
My first advice based on 25 years in software development: technology is cool, but before adopting a technology or writing a piece of software, first think of what your customer needs. We technology driven software developers tend to over complicate things by our addiction to ‘new stuff’.

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Sidibe

Thanks:)

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Travis

We are in the same boat. I think you might be better than me. I am just learning on my own and never went to school for this. Please let me have the few ideas that you have and so I can learn too.

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Sidibe

Hi, how are u?
U can start with HTML and CSS like me, it is a good way to start.I will give a link of a website, you can start learn there HTML and CSS

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Sidibe

U can follow this courses to start. After your free online course finished you can try to install a text editor on your computer.After my course online I did that and now too I still learning HTML and CSS by watching videos on YouTube. You can start by learning in the website first after that u can watch videos on YouTube u will understand well because videos because u already finished with the website courses. U can watch tutorial videos on YouTube and follow ur courses the same time if u want.

 
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Souren Khetcho

Have a mini project in mind, choose which programming language you want to build that project on and learn the aspects that are required to build that project. You will learn by building. Good luck!

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Sidibe

Thanks for your advices :)😊

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ROBERTSAM2000

Hi Mohamed, you do not need to know a lot to get started. What you actually need is patience and time. I bet you, you gonna make it to the top. Keep the same energy too

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Sidibe

Thanks :)

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Pariola

Hola DEVs
I'm Philip.
People call me Pariola

New here tho.
My first post actually.

I'm a front end developer

Here
I don't have a team I work with .
Getting support is what the Dev community is for...right?

Any dev ready to chip me in his/her team...

Gracias!

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Thomas Bnt

Hello and welcome to Dev.to Community ! 👋🏼😉

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Waylon Walker

Love your Eliot gif

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Waylon Walker

That's exactly what DEV is for

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Lucius Emmanuel Emmaccen

holla ! your name 💭......... where you from ?

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Aaron McCollum

Hey all! I'm Aaron, from DC. I am learning to code for a hobby right now but am interested in career possibilities. Right now I am exploring and learning more about JavaScript and really enjoying it!

I'm joining DEV to connect with others, make friends, learn, and hopefully give back as well.

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Waylon Walker

Welcome to DEV!! The JavaScript ecosystem is so strong right now. Great choice for web dev.

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Aaron McCollum

Thanks Waylon!

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Sammy J • Edited

Hey! Im a stay-at-home mom turned Cloud Developer.
Andrew told me to join DEV!
I need to learn how to use markdown more 😜

🌼🌼🌼

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pavlo kozub

welcome :) I am also a newbie

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Waylon Walker

Newbies are always welcome

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Arik

Welcome!

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Helen Anderson

Welcome Sammy! Great to have you here :)

Have you found the Editor guide for the Dev flavour of markdown?

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Sammy J

I'll check the article out now! Thanks!!

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Waylon Walker

stay-at-home mom turned Cloud Developer.

You sound like a rockstar

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Sidibe

Hi here, I'm Mohamed I'm new here I like the developer job, but i know almost nothing about it, actually I'm beginning with html and css. Please someone can help me and advise. Thanks ☺️

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Chris Achard

Hi Mohamed! Welcome to DEV :)

Starting with html and css is a great way to get started - just start making things that you like! You can find a whole bunch of tutorials online you can follow, but I would also give yourself time to just play around and explore what you can do.

Once you feel a little bit confident with basic html and css, you can start looking at javascript, which allows your websites to become more interactive.

If you want to try out some online code "playgrounds" you can check out codepen.io or codesandbox.io - which both have some great templates and a neat online environment for playing around.

Good luck!

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Sidibe

Thanks very much

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Sidibe

Please, do you want to give me some advice on how to progress and be good in HTML and CSS?

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Chris Achard

My best advice is to find some project that you're passionate about and try to make it happen! Pretty soon you'll want to do something but won't know how, so google for that and find that answer. Then keep going until you hit another roadblock, and google for that answer :)

It can be super frustrating while you're doing it - but eventually you'll have to start googling less and less, and then you can move on to more advanced challenges!

So the best advice I have is: know that it's going to be hard, but keep building little interesting projects anyway :)

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Sidibe • Edited

Thanks u again :). And can I ask u when need advices sometimes?

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Chris Achard

Sure, go for it :) good luck!

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Sidibe

Thanks:)

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Waylon Walker

Keep practicing!

Also there are many services that help you easily deploy html/css for free. Get something out that you can share with others.

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Sidibe

Thanks 😊

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Ibrahim Folarin

Hi, I'm Folarin. I just got know Dev.to. An interesting article brought me here. I read the comments section and I knew I'd to join this great platform to network and read more articles from great minds while also contributing too. I look forward to having a great time 😀😀😀

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Waylon Walker

See you in the #python tag

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Adrian

Hi Folarin! I joined via am article as well! I hope this will be a great resource for us!

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Ibrahim Folarin

Yeah..... Me too.

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Faraz Khan

I am a CS student. And a beginner actually. I am working on Web Development and Deep Learning projects.
I am here because I don't have anyone to help me or guide me through out the learning path. I hope this community will help How can I ask a question ?

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Waylon Walker

I was self taught as well, and came to data science from hard work at mechanical engineering job.

Keep practicing!!!

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Arwan Sasmito

Hello guys, I'm arwan from jakarta, INA. I'm new in here, and i'm very excited to learn something new about web development. I just know a little about HTML, CSS & JAVASCRIPT. I want to learn from all of you in deep.. and also programming language..

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Mik Seljamaa 🇪🇪

Perhaps I could help you and we could do some conferences together with Xenia?

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Mik Seljamaa 🇪🇪

Perhaps we could try mob programming?

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Arwan Sasmito

but I just starting to learn java

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Arwan Sasmito

yes I can..

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pavlo kozub

Hey all!
I am Pavlo. From Ukraine. I am a software developer. I try to use java, js, and python in my work 5 years already. Also, I work a lot with the AWS cloud and trying to develop some cloud solutions based on it.

If you have some questions for me, or you think I can help you - welcome.

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Waylon Walker

Those sound like some 🔥 hot skills right now.

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pavlo kozub

Yes, I think the same. Very like to work with the AWS.

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