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Hi people, I'm Salim a beginner dev and a recruiter.
Welcome! Loved reading the comments on your discuss thread: "Will a Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None developer get hired these days?"
Hey all, I'm Ryan. Been a developer for nearly a decade, and an agile coach for around 4. I have a weakness for helping other developers navigate the weird career they've chosen and building better teams.
I've worked for startups, investment banks, educational tech companies, advertising, food service, shipping and logistics, and non-profits.
That's a lot of experience. Any preference of startup to big company or preference of industry after all that?
Do you still do a lot of development or are you more focused on the agile coach part? If so, what's the reason for the switch? Asking as a budding developer. :)
Lot of questions!
I really love the passion and energy that comes with working at a start up. I don't like how unhealthy it tends to get with lack of pay, benefits, or the idea that you have to work to death to be successful. Large companies are slower and more stable, but it allows a great opportunity to sharpen your skills.
As for the agile thing, well, I believe its my calling. The people I've worked with over the years that have been able to experience agility as it aspires to be describe it as the best experience of their career. I'd like to focus on giving people that kind of fulfillment over writing some code.
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Hi, my name is Michael. The Changelog Podcast brought me here!
I'm a frontend developer, getting into mobile, and working part-time. In the remaining time I study Clojure, tinker with Emacs, and try to contribute to the open source community. I use React with the mainstream toolset.
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Hi Devs, I always wanted a dev.to account, now I have one, yay!
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Welcome, Nddy!
ayyye. welcome, i feel the same way.
Hello! I'm Marty.
I've been toying with the idea of writing an article for a while. I'd like to find a way to translate the topics I'm currently studying into something immediately useful, and I've read that the act of teaching or explaining something is a great way to solidify new knowledge.
I've always held back thanks to a fear that I don't have the "authority" to say very much in this field, but a little voice in my head knows that that's not really a requirement in order to contribute something useful to this community. I'm hoping that by signing up for this site and introducing myself, I'll have moved one step closer to reaching my goal of publishing my first article. Cheers!
Welcome, Marty! I'm excited to read that first article.
I'm glad that the "little voice" of encouragement is already there. I think that one of the most destructive misconceptions that stops people from publishing articles is the false belief that you have to be an expert to write a worthwhile article.
I've learned so much from junior/intermediate developers sharing their realizations and experiences. They're often written in a much more approachable manner, step-by-step, without assuming existing knowledge.
Cheers!
Thanks for that, Peter! Cheers!
Welcome Marty!
I understand that fear very well! Up until a few months ago, I had daily impostor syndrome and it still nags me now and again.
I just try to remember that the teaching model that we were likely raised by, whereby the facade of top-down education taught us that we could not teach without perfection, is not a true representation of how we learn.
We were trained to think that the teacher and the learner are separated, the teacher passing something to the learner and nothing to him/her self. The act of teaching seemed as an activity that only happens during certain times of day.
The reality, fortunately, is that the teacher and the learner are the same and it is happening all of the time. To teach IS to learn.
At this point in my commenting, a related fear of mine pops in mind to say, "Now, listen to you, all arrogant-like, trying to 'advise' this person. Who do you think you are!? Just delete this and don't embarrass yourself." And I could respond with submission and give in to that fear; retract my sharing. I could respond with aggression and an attempt to shut down my fear, to tell it to shut up. OR I could surrender to the process of allowing myself to learn by doing.
Submitting or shutting myself down means that I won't communicate, my own learning is stifled and I offer nothing to anyone else. I can do those things. I have made those choices many times. BUT, right now, I am choosing to allow myself the possibility of making a mistake in communication, for the sake of creating the opportunity to learn. If my aim is to teach only, I will not learn. If I aim to learn only what an "expert" possesses, I will never teach. However, when I share my experiences and engage with others in the process, the fear weakens, knowledge and understanding is developed and joy follows.
Anyway, I hope this long-winded thought helps you to develop your first article! :D
Hello Marty!
Hey Marty. I understand about the fear of writing and posting your first article. I'm in the same position. I'm transitioning from a career as a teacher into tech, and so I've been putting in a lot of work to learn the tools of the trade.
For me, the most helpful articles have been short 'how tos' on doing pretty specific things, such as user authentication with Passport and Sequelize, how to set up a MongoDB database, getting Socket.io into your project, etc.
I'm not sure what your direction was for your article, but just putting out there what I like to see!
Anyways, good luck!
Hey Marty, Welcome to this space and I look forward to reading articles/information you post here soon. Cheers!!!
Hi Marty, I'm sure you'll do well just believe in yourself!
Hello!
Hi folks, am Alex Emeka Igbokwe, a full stack web developer and a desktop app developer. I really like the community we have here and am happy to be a member.
Hi！my name is liaoya,I am learning c language，I hope to be able to grow and contribute here。
Ps：I am Chinese, English is relatively poor, I hope you and more exchanges with me, so my English may be promoted very quickly.
Hello, I'm also trying to learn C. IMHO every developer should at least learn the basic of C language or have an idea.
I'm doing some exercises from this website. My goal is to try them all.
w3resource.com/c-programming-exerc...
come on!加油！
Hi there!
Hi all. I'm Abraham and started to learn coding but it seems that I'm not making any progress. Would like someone to show me the ropes, please!!!?
Hey Abraham — check out the #beginners tag which has plenty of great content.
Hey folks,
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We're excited to hop on to dev.to and share some of the posts coming out of our blog. We'll mostly be using dev.to to share content we think offers helpful advice for IT management, but we also write a ton of stuff for beginners. You can find all of it at airbrake.io/blog
Eager to hear your thoughts on our writing and read what everyone else is publishing!
Have a swell rest of your Thursday.
Howdy!
Hello folks! I'm Caio.
I'm currently working as a mobile dev but I'd say I'm pretty well rounded in other areas.
I love discussing code and landing people a hand so feel free to give me a ping if you are stuck trying to figure something out.
Cheers!
Hello!
I'm Víctor, I'm a software developer and I've got something to say; dev.to is such a great thing, I do not only love coding, I find the "world" around it truly fascinating.
I'm glad to be part of a nice community, thanks mates.
It got me excited. Gonna see around and discover this "world" @ dev.to.
Hello! I'm Apar.
I just got into web development specially with web applications based on javascript frameworks.
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I seem to be in the v5 thread. :) need to read up on the other ones. Hello Dev.to. Big Echo to all!
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