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Welcome Thread - v18

Hey there! Welcome to dev.to!

The many faces of computer users

  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 and say hello or ask them a question. 👋

  3. Or answer this question: Do you prefer working remote or in an office?

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Hey there! I work here at DEV :) I think I mostly prefer working in the office, but I'm growing to like working remote. I think a successful remote location means an environment with little distractions. Communication is also key for remote workers, both from the team and to the team.

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Karyme Virginia • Edited

I'm going to respond to this one, because apparently I've never commented on an intro thread before!

So hi! My name is Karyme Virginia. I'm a student at Flatiron School learning full-stack web development with mainly Ruby and JavaScript. It's fun. :)

For now, I would prefer working remotely because I don't like commuting, but I quite enjoy the office environment!

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Bobby Yankou

Everyone I work with is shocked that I chose to move where I did because it means commuting over an hour into work. That said, I heard a big predictor of happiness is commute time, so you probably have the right idea!

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Karyme Virginia

I'm actually on the fence about that! If I'm taking public transit, there's sort of a dual-edged blade with that. Oftentimes I feel uncomfortable on public transit, but in theory it frees me up to read a book or something else I'd otherwise do in my free-time anyway. If that's the case, I feel I could handle a long commute. Even if I'm driving, I suppose I could listen to good music (which I hardly ever do on my own) or a podcast, or an audiobook!

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Bobby Yankou

Absolutely! I'm on public transit and am usually reading a book while listening to music. Sometimes a podcast (that's what I did this morning).

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Ben Halpern

I also very much dislike commuting

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Akira

yay Ruby!

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Ferit Cubukcuoglu • Edited
#/usr/bin/python
from pprint import pprint
class Introduction(object):
    """Hello dev.to"""
    def __init__(self):
        self.person = {
            "firstname" : "Ferit",
            "lastname" : "Cubukcuoglu",
            "profession" : "fullstack developer and founder",
            "skills" : ["desktop, mobile development(python,C++,Qt)", "maker", "web"],
            "learning today" : ["Vue.js", "bootstrap", "css"],
            "signin dev.to for" : ["interesting articles", "dev posts", "like-minded people"],
            "available for" : ["different kinds of projects(coding or making things)"]
        }

    def introduce(self):
        return self.person

pprint(Introduction().introduce())

:)

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Vinicius Brasil

Welcome! I can see Python is one of your main weapons. 😃

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Ferit Cubukcuoglu • Edited

Thx! Not only but one of my favorites 😁 the truth is that my coding skills are definitely better than my english and I thought our common language here on dev.to is clear, coding/dev! In a way, everyone will understand me here, maybe in a different syntax😊

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Kelli Jo Isaak

Hello! I am a self-employed website developer. I do business as the Web Witch from my home. I specialize in ASP.NET Webforms and the Visual Basic language. I am an expert in creating accessible, data-driven, and mobile-friendly websites.

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Ben Halpern

Welcome to DEV, so great to have you!

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Akira

Hi all! I'm a student at the Turing School in Denver. I stumbled across this community by happenstance and am excited to become involved. I'm very new to programming..and I'm not sure if I prefer remote or in office, as I've never worked remote before.

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Karyme Virginia • Edited

Hi, and welcome, to both DEV and programming! I'm sure you'll love it.

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Akira

Why thank you! Programming is great-as someone coming from an entirely different background its a consistent exercise in being completely literal at all times-which I find hilarious and amazingly frustrating all at once :D Rails has been making things so much easier, though!!!

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Ben Halpern

How are you liking the Turing school?

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Akira • Edited

Such a great question. Its certainly the most challenging thing I have ever done, technically and personally. The biggest point of growth, I believe, is in how I'm learning to dissect huge problems into tiny bits, and also in how my viewpoint is changing on how to address social issues as well. Its a great school that does an excellent job on teaching technical skill and is very committed to evolving education such that ethics are addressed so that those technical skills can be used by their students to better the human condition. It is certainly not perfect and there are some faults that come with any kind of human organization, but whats most important to me that I resonate with there is that Turing is 100% committed to constantly growing, and they practice what they preach in that area. Its very refreshing.

So in summary, its hard and the academic demands and workload can be brutally tough (and who likes that, really, unless you're a masochist....) but I am glad to be there. I'm confident I will come out prepared to enter the job market AND have real tools to make a difference in the areas I care about.

I'd love to hear any other Turing students or alums chime in and give your thoughts on what you experienced.

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Zephyr Prusinski • Edited

Hi! I'm Zephyr! I do full stack PHP/Angular work currently and like the elementary school-sourced magnets on my fridge say, I 'Love to Learn', 'Love to Write', and 'Love to Create'. I work on-site mostly because I have way too many projects at home.

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Ben Halpern

Great to have you!

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Varun Bhartia

Hello!!!

I am a relatively new developer looking to connect with other new developers! This seems like a really cool community!

I'm building this - thehackhive.com , a portfolio site for developers. Check out my profile - thehackhive.com/profile/vbhartia

Love to learn about what people are building and connect!

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Welcome! Nice website!

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Thalles Henrique

Hello everyone! I'm an I.T. student who lives at Monteiro, state of Paraíba, Brazil. I'll finish my college next year, on Systems Analysis and Development, but, like almost everyone who are graduating on the same college, even recognizing the importance of both on software development, I prefer programming over systems analysis (doing UML diagrams, writing use cases, defining business rules, and so on). Because I love thinking about graphical interfaces, my favorite part of development is doing the front-end. Actually, I can write programs in Java, Python (Django) and JavaScript (worked with PHP but I'm forgetting it because it had some time) and now I'm learning Spring Boot and Angular, but have interest to learn other languages and frameworks, too. On my vacant hours, my favorite hobby is to change the UI of my Galaxy S7, with themes, icon packs, launchers and widgets (I used to install custom ROMs on my previous devices too).
About the question, when I'm home, I'm so lazy. When I take a bath, switch my clothes, drink my coffee and go to the college, a "trigger" is activated on my brain and I finally feel ready to work. Even on start of graduation, I always tried to do my projects on college laboratory or library. So, if I can choose, I would prefer work on an office.

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Saviour Gidi • Edited

What's up, I am a DevOps and Backend Dev from Ghana. I write .NETCore, Python, And Some JS when the need arises. I am addicted to Linux and i3Wm. I have a battle horse which I am struggling to part ways with, its the Lenovo ThinkPad T410, this guy is a workhorse. :sparkles:

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Neil Syiemlieh

Hey everyone! I'm an undergraduate student studying IT with a passion for the web. I've been working with node and React for about a year now. Got here from Medium and I already feel so at home here! This place feels so much more developer friendly

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Nick Taylor

Welcome to dev.to Neil! 👋

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Neil Syiemlieh

Thank you!

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Lou Zuniga

Hi everyone! My name is Lou and I came to a realization about 3wks ago that I dislike my current career path and coincidentally read an article about becoming a software engineer in 9months. I was hooked. I must admit that I was always intrigued with programming but assumed that it's only for smart people and I would never understand it. Tomorrow (Oct. 15)I will be joining Thinkful's Full Stack Flex program and hope that I land a job after the program. I don't know which language I will be diving into yet, but I think I'm leaning towards JavaScript.

I currently live in Portland, OR and I'm super ecstatic and grateful to have found and soon join a career with an unbelievably supportive community. I like the idea of mostly working remotely with an option of reporting to an office environment for building rapport and human interaction. I like people and being cooped up at home most of the time is not my thing.

I'm looking forward to this journey and dev.to is a great resource. Thank you!

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Fernando B 🚀

Welcome Lou. I am new myself here too, but of course we are smart people lol.

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Frederico Hakamine

Oh cool! An intro thread.

Came up here because all the cool kids are doing it :)

I'm currently getting amazed by headless CMS and hosting everything for free and fast!
I like working remote but its good to see some faces here and there...

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John Slivinsky

Hello, my name is John Slivinsky and I'm new to Dev.to

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Xela

Hi,

I am a French Backend developer. My main skills are JavaScript and PHP and right now I'm trying to improve my CSS skills because I'm not good at front-end and I'm learning VueJS.
My GitHub : github.com/binksxela

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Tomas Vorel

Hi everyone!

I'm Tom, I live in the Czech Republic and I'm a self-taught web developer in the first year of my new career. I'm excited I found this community of people who enjoy programming as much as I do and hopefully I'll be able to learn from experienced devs and also share my successes and failures as a self-taught developer.

Can't wait to get started :-)

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