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Welcome Thread - v19

Hey there! Welcome to dev.to!

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  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: What are you learning about right now?

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Ece

Hey people. I'm technically a lawyer but I thought "who needs that in their lives" and somehow found myself learning and loving HTML, CSS and JS. It's only been 7-8 months since I started learning, so everything is a little intimidating still, but I'm hoping to be the best frontend developer anyone has ever seen (lol). Anyway looking forward to chat with you all :3

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Shashi

Love HTML. Gives so much control over the code. Welcome! I am a newbie too.

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Ran Lottem

I'm learning more and more that, while HTML decides the content, CSS exerts a lot of control over how that content is displayed. It's a whole new world!

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Ece

And isn't amazing that when you write a couple lines of code, it only takes you 2 seconds to refresh the page and see the results of what you did? I absolutely love that about coding :)

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Shashi

Agree. In fact there are websites that allow you to test it LIVE! Real time changes to what the code is doing. Have found these spaces excellent resources for both learning and teaching.

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Boris Jamot ✊ / • Edited

You made the good choice by learning to code. Welcome here !

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Ece

Thank you, I definitely feel welcomed!

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Rima Paskeviciute

Hey! I was transport manager and i thought the same :D Welcome!

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Ece

You go girl, best of luck to you!

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Mescaline87

Hi Ece! I also just left my safe Managing position in a travel agency to pursue my dream and start coding coding coding! Wish you all the luck in the world!

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Ece

It takes a lot of courage doesn't it? I love success stories about changing careers and chasing dreams :)

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Mescaline87

It does! but choosing with the heart is the only way to choose! now its the time for hard work and determination! see you along the way!

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Tumelo Mwaba

Awesome

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jess unrein

I registered about a month ago, but I've only really spent time here over the last week or so, and I just published my first dev.to article today!

I recently got my first Data Engineering job. I'm busy learning what Data Engineering is and how, if at all, it's distinct from Software Engineering as a discipline. I'm very excited. 🤗

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Shashi

Hearty congratulations! 👍

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Ben Halpern

Woohoo congrats 🎉

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Heladio

When you find it out, let us know! :)

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jess unrein

I will definitely update you with any useful data engineering insights. Right now I’m just kind of flailing about and my team is being very kind and informative 😜

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Ben Halpern

Welcome welcome welcome.

In addition to commenting here, I recommend finding a post that someone else made and asking a question. It's a great way to get the knowledge flowing from smart folks in the DEV community.

Happy coding!

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BADRI NARAYAN BHADRA

Hello, I'm a fresher in this community and I want to learn about programming. Please help me.

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Sung M. Kim

Hi Badri, welcome to dev.to 👋

Please help me

We can all help each other as nobody knows everything 😁

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Andrew (he/him)

Please help me.

I feel the same way, brother.

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Thomas Bnt • Edited

Hello, I'm on dev.to for well over a year, and I'm more and more in recent months.

🙋‍♂️ My name is Thomas, I'm French and I'm 19 yo (writted un french). I love web development, I learn this time Ruby and RoR, I also do my first code under Ruby, I invite you to fly over and tell me what you think. (Nothing crazy I know but I was proud for my first program).

I'm looking for people to follow who will post articles around the web domain #html, #css, #js, #rails

let me know 👋

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Andrew (he/him)

Bonjour et bienvenue, Thomas! Mais je suppose que vous êtes la personne qui devrait dire "bienvenue" à moi

(je vais vous aider avec votre codage si vous m'aidez avec mon français (= )

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Thomas Bnt • Edited

Yes ! Welcome or if you want : Bienvenue ! 🙋‍♂️👋

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Ellie S.

Hi everyone!

My name is Ellie, I'm a new frontend web developer.
I live in San Diego, California and work full time as an Admin Assistant, but I'm determined to make the career switch. I practice code after work and try to attend meetups too. Shoutout to Women Who Code San Diego! :D

I've been working with HTML and CSS so far. JavaScript is my next challenge! I'll probably be bumbling through it, but I will do my best and learn!

I'm really glad to be here. Thank you, dev.to community for being awesome!

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Karam Jabareen

wellcome

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Lyndor

Hey everyone, I'm currently sharpening my JavaScript skills,I'm also looking at reactjs. I joined this community today because of the amazing content I've been reading, I'm learning a lot just from reading the content posted here.

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Sung M. Kim

Welcome 👋 Lyndor to dev.to.

Amount of content can be overwhelming so you can follow/filter by #react tag as you are looking at React 👊.

react

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John McCracken

Hi all,

After following on twitter for a few months I've decided to register and hopefully start to contribute.

I live in Scotland and I've been a developer in one form or another for the last decade.

Currently feeling a bit stale and jaded and hoping I can be re-inspired by the DEV community.

Feel free to begin anytime! ;-)

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Chris

Hi all!

Found out about DEV via a Reddit referral (r/webdev, iirc). I started a new job as a senior systems analyst over the summer. Prior to this, my career and education has focused primarily on network and server administration, but my new role is in the web application and web site development space, so I want sharpen my current development skills and acquire new ones as well.

I'm actually working on my Master's (IT Management, though I may take a second one with a security focus), and at the moment I'm taking a bunch of business-related courses. Right now I'm taking a course called Technological Globalization and will be working on advanced networking and project management next.

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Anna Simoroshka

Hi! I just joined, after seeing several posts on Twitter and getting curious enough to try this platform out. It seems so cozy!
I'm Russian, moved to Finland to get a master's degree in CS (Algorithms and ML) and to stay, which worked well. :) Currently, I'm a javascript developer in a tiny company located in Helsinki. I'm also developing a platform for online diaries, together with a few friends. It has a similar set of values as this community, maybe that's why I feel instantly at home here.
I have lots of ups and downs in my career path and I am still not sure who I want to be and what I want to be doing. Before starting my own project I was considering to quit dev altogether. But now there is a purpose.

I haven't written anything yet and I don't know what I can write about. I never feel confident to talk about technical stuff because I know so little. Maybe I will write about struggles of balancing work, project, life, or about leading development in a small team of amateur enthusiasts under a constant pressure of impatient audience. :D

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🌟

Hi! I discovered this community thru researcing about ReactJS v17. Currently, I'm researching/studying the effect of the new version of React (16.6.0) to our app at work. Even though, I have experience, I still consider myself as a beginner. Happy to know other dev better! ☺

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