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Posted on Sep 18, 2019

Welcome Thread - v41

dev.to staff · 2019-09-18T14:41:35Z

Welcome to DEV! 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. Reply to someone's comment, either with a question or just a hello. 👋 Great to have you in the community!

#welcome

Welcome to DEV!

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

Great to have you in the community!

Top comments (639)

candaceyw • Sep 18 '19

Hi, I'm Candace. I'm currently a graphic designer and photographer, been at this for about 16 years now. But I'm switching things up and jumping in to learn full stack web development. Currently trying to wrap my brain around JavaScript, slowly. I have some HTML and CSS knowledge, but I need to fill in some gaps there as well. Hoping to learn more!

Tyrus Malmström • Sep 19 '19

Greetings Candance! That's awesome that you've been doing graphic design for 16 years, congrats on that!

Just want to say that I think it is awesome that you've decided to switch things up and if you ever want to discuss JavaScript, I'm always up for a discussion.

Best!

ssndude2 • Sep 20 '19

Hi Candance,
I am new here also but I have been coding for around 50 years, If you don't mind I can maybe offer a hint that will make your coding easier. I recommend not trying to optimize while coding, keep your functions simple, short and single minded.

Rick

candaceyw • Sep 22 '19

Thanks, Rick! I will keep that in mind. I know it's easy to over think things. So I appreciate any advice!

candaceyw • Sep 22 '19

Thank you, Tyrus! I really appreciate that! I'm really enjoying it so far... frustrated at times, but that's to be expected. :)

Nitesh Sharma • Sep 25 '19

Hi.

Tonida Baraza • Sep 18 '19

Hello Candace. I am a Javascript dev. I am happy to help in your Javascript discovery journey.

candaceyw • Sep 19 '19

Thank you! I appreciate that. :)

Tomas Sirio • Sep 25 '19

Welcome Candace!

Michael Maitoza • Sep 20 '19

Hello there Candace. I also have been in the industry for a while and need to fill in some gaps with my javaScript knowledge. Good luck with your coding journey.

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Sep 18 '19

Awesome, my wife is a full-time photographer. What kind of photography do you enjoy? What's the most challenging part of JavaScript so far (maybe I can help explain)? Welcome to DEV!

candaceyw • Sep 19 '19

I do mostly portraits and commercial work. What I enjoy most is creating fine art work - I've done a lot of horror work with my kids :)

Challenging part of JS. Well, I can get the logic working in my brain, but getting it from the concept to code can be confusing. I'll have an idea on what method I need to start using, go look it up and get sent down rabbit trails of other ways to make it work. For instance, I'll be using a for loop. I'll get the loop and output, but then get hung up in between. Usually it ends up being a += symbol killing me and I second guess it while looking up the issues.
It's a good thing i'm not working on paper. LOL

Cedric Bahirwe • Sep 22 '19

Hello, nice to see that there is someone like me here

candaceyw • Sep 22 '19

Right on! Sometimes doing new things can feel lonely at times ;)

Vicente G. Reyes • Sep 19 '19

Hi Candace! Welcome to DEV!

Chimezie Innocent • Sep 19 '19

Welcome Candace to web dev...It is and will be a wonderful experience and I can be of assistance in your journey. Goodluck and happy Coding

Jsviews • Sep 20 '19

Hello!

Musta Aga • Sep 25 '19

Welcome!

Juan Alejandro Morais • Sep 24 '19

Welcome, Candace! Excited to have you here. Graphic design & photography are amazing skills, and they're great additions to your toolset as a web dev.

Best wishes! :)

Deepak Choudhary • Sep 24 '19

great....

Olojo Babawale Olumide • Sep 23 '19

Welcome

Arash Emadi • Sep 24 '19

Hey! Welcome and good luck!

amy acker • Sep 19 '19

Hello and hope you will learn a lot.

Mostafa ElNahass • Sep 18 '19

Hello everyone. I'm Mostafa and I originally graduated with a business informatics degree. However, years of not finding a job as a technical consultant or a project manager because I did not fit "their criteria" led me to experiment with my own eCommerce business. My passion in programming was renewed again and I am currently working on a C# project, python project and an Android project. I'm looking to learn a lot to advance and share my knowledge with the community

Chris Achard • Sep 18 '19

Welcome to DEV Mostafa! This is a great community to learn a lot :)

Mostafa ElNahass • Sep 21 '19

I am glad I joined this community and I am willing to learn and give to the community when I have more experience

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Sep 18 '19

Cool! Hi Mostafa! What kind of ecommerce development did you do? I help maintain Solidus.

Mostafa ElNahass • Sep 21 '19

Hello Jacob, I did not do any ecommerce development but I had my own Amazon/ebay stores and I shut them down due to scams. Now I am still doing ecommerce on other platforms but on a lower scale. In the future I am planning to develop my own ecommerce platform with the things I learned to make it both Seller and Buyer friendly

Viera • Sep 20 '19

Hi Mostafa, I love the choice of C# and python. What programming language are you using for your Android project?

Mostafa ElNahass • Sep 21 '19

Hello Viera, I am currently using Ionic/Angular because I am taking it over from a previous team who already worked on the project. If it was my choice I would have created it over Flutter or React

Shamira • Sep 21 '19

Hello

Mostafa ElNahass • Sep 21 '19

Hello Mira

Michael Maitoza • Sep 21 '19

Hello. I wish you well on your coding journey.

Mostafa ElNahass • Sep 21 '19

Thank you very much Michael and good luck to you as well

samuele-cozzi • Sep 18 '19

Hi there guys,
My names is Samuele. I'm a full stack developer (Microsoft.NET). Very interested in ML and Algorithms.

Michael Maitoza • Sep 21 '19

Hi there! I hope this is a great experience for you.

Henry Valbuena • Sep 19 '19

Welcome @samuele-cozzi

🖖

Vicente G. Reyes • Sep 19 '19

Hi Samuele! Welcome to DEV!

Henry Valbuena • Sep 19 '19

Hey there, I'm Henry. I recently made a career change into programming. I've been coding for the past ten years just for fun until about a couple of years when I followed the white rabbit and took the red pill. The journey has just begun since I just finished a Computer Programmer program. Wish me luck!.

print('Live long and prosper')

Vinícius Gomes • Sep 19 '19

Good luck, Henry! What would have happened if you'd taken the blue one?

Henry Valbuena • Sep 20 '19

I would have stayed in my previous boring job lol!

S.Panaligan • Sep 23 '19

Good Luck!! I'm also a red pill person... let me know how it turns out on the other side :)

Elmer Chacon • Sep 18 '19

Hi Everyone!

My name is Elmer, I'm a NET full stack developer. Im very interested in expand my knowlege with Frontend frameworks such Angular and React.

Chris Achard • Sep 18 '19

I love React :) happy to help if you get stuck! Have you done any tutorials, etc to learn it yet?

Elmer Chacon • Sep 18 '19

Not yet, Im starting with some Angular Tutorials with NET Backend, but hopefully I will continue with React

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Sep 18 '19

I'm also trying to get better at React, and JavaScript in general! Welcome!

webdevtestus • Sep 18 '19

Hi! I am a Jr. web dev with some coding knowledge "put to work" in some live projects. I actually work creating and maintaining Wordpress Sites, woo commerce stores and niche sites/landing pages. I have a good knowledge of performance and load speed and can help with those issues. I also have some SEO, growth hacking and marketing experience. Hope I can help and learn a lot!

Antone • Sep 19 '19

Hey!

How do you like WordPress?

webdevtestus • Sep 19 '19

Hi, Antone. Do you mean, what I like or how do I like to style it?
I like WP sites that are really fast, with minimum plugins, I prefer creating my own shortcodes or snippets, light theme, some whitespaces, to use golden ratio. Simple sites, not full of images or "things", easy to navigate sites.

Antone • Sep 19 '19

I just meant using WordPress as a whole. I'm only hand coding everything at this point.

webdevtestus • Sep 20 '19

Wordpress as a whole is fine, but you`ll always need some edition, styling and maybe some snippet. But as an "all-in-one-ready-to-use" CMS, is awesome. With some practice you get a whole site+theme+sorporate edition+contnet in a few hours

Antone • Sep 20 '19

Thank you for your insight!

Bax • Sep 19 '19

Hey, welcome. How is Wordpress doing these days?

webdevtestus • Sep 19 '19

Hi, Edu.
I have some gigs, WP is "working" fine, I mean, you (any user) can easily manage a site (once it is perfectly installed, updated, tuned) and sell, promote, show, teach, you can do anything so it is an ever-green market I think.

Nura Adam • Sep 18 '19

webdevtestus • Sep 19 '19

Hi, Nura, nice to meet you.

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Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Sep 18 '19

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Scott White • Sep 19 '19

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ovlachi • Sep 19 '19

Hi Everyone,

My name is George and I am a Frontend Developer and Designer. I am interested in learning more about semantic HTML, CSS, JavaScript, a11y and maybe later I will jump on a framework bandwagon (most likely Vue)...

Chris Achard • Sep 19 '19

Hi George! Welcome to DEV :) Good luck as you learn Vue!

Sadick • Sep 25 '19

Hi George welcome to the dev.to community.

I know kung-fu • Sep 25 '19

Hi George welcome and goodluck !

Tomas Sirio • Sep 25 '19

Hi George! welcome to the community

Fern Williams • Sep 21 '19

Hey everybody! I’m Fern and I’m a Junior Test Analyst who is aspiring to be a developer. I have knowledge with HTML, CSS. I also use SQL at work.
I’m new to the game but I have been practising little projects on my own laptop for about two years now... I want to focus on getting my confidence up with JavaScript.

Helen Anderson • Sep 21 '19

Welcome!

Nick Taylor • Sep 21 '19

Welcome to DEV! 👋

Kumbi Madzinga • Sep 23 '19

I was told I had to say 'hi' to at least one person. Hi!

Peter David Carter • Sep 18 '19 • Edited

Hey all. My name's Peter and I'm a dev for a large education software company working on upgrading a legacy system to run on Angular, with NGRX state. I do some C# stuff for the backend as well. Just getting into security research...