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Robert G. Wetherall

Hi, I'm Rob, I teach Social Studies in a Middle School in South Jersey, and I've been interested in development since I was little messing around with BASIC on my dad's Tandy 1000. I tried majoring in CS as a Freshmen, but quickly failed out of that program and switched to Anthropology which was a better fit for me at that age. When I became a teacher, I noticed that I wanted some personalized tools to be a better teacher, and I have been teaching myself how to code to fulfill my needs ever since (you can visit my class website at mrwetherall.org. I'm trying to learn react, graphql, database (mostly MongoDB right now), node, Javascript, and just how to make code do what my brain envisions (which is really hard as a self-taught programmer). I'm hoping that this site will help answer the why's more than the how's.