Welcome Thread

Hey everyone, I'm a teacher at freeCodeCamp. I am a long-time fan of CodeNewbie and have participated in some of their Twitter chats over the years. I am not sure how much I'll write here on the new CodeNewbie site, but I wanted to introduce myself. I look forward to reading your writing, and hope you all have a fun, insightful time.

Hey everyone! I'm Jeremy Schuurmans -- I'm a former boot camp student and current junior engineer. I love helping other people in their coding journeys because so many people helped (and continue to help) me in mine. I'm looking forward to seeing this space grow!

Hello everyone! I have been a long time follower of CodeNewbie and Dev. I was super excited by the merger of the two a while back and I can only imagine what this community will grow into.

I have been in development for a decade now, mostly within the AWS ecosystem, but have been doing more and more with Hybrid cloud and multi-cloud things. I am very excited to continue sharing my knowledge with this inclusive community.

Hey y'all! I'm a former bootcamp graduate and have been working as a software engineer who primarily works with Ruby on Rails for 7 months now. I went through a 14 month long and arduous job search before landing my current role, where I now sit on the other side of interviews!

My passion for blogging was sparked over on DEV nearly 2 years ago now. Writing for the CodeNewbie tag there was one of my favorite things to do, so I'm really excited to be here and help contribute to this amazing community and resource for CodeNewbies!

Hi Everyone! My name is Sam. When I'm not working on frontend or native app development, I run the WeeklyProject.Club where I try and help new programmers with weekly projects.

I'm really excited to be here with some many cool people!

Hi everyone! My name is Jonathan Yeong, a senior software engineer at a company in Seattle. When I first started my web development journey, Code Newbie was the biggest support network I had. I'm super excited to be able to give back to the community!

Hey everyone! My name is Ken. I’m a React Developer. First got started in 2014 with Laravel. Got my first job as a junior dev with no degree and no previous experience of any kind. It was all thanks to amazing content created online by other awesome devs. So now in addition to my day job I focus on helping others break into the industry regardless of their education or experience. Excited to be here!

Hey everyone! I'm Chrissie, a front-end web developer and UI designer from Rwanda 🇷🇼 I started my blogging journey on Dev last year and I'm excited to be part of this new community and help others code newbie grow and develop their careers 🙂

Hi everyone! Nice to meet you all 👩🏻‍💻 I'm Pauline — a self-taught developer based in the Netherlands. I've been working as a frontend engineer for 2 years now. I've received so much help and support over the years from colleagues as well as kind strangers, and I really want to give back to the community by helping out new developers. 🙌 Very excited to be here and to watch this space grow into something beautiful!

Hello there 😊👋!

I'm Desiré, from Spain -- an ex UI/UX specialist, web dev&designer who's currently learning game development to change careers. Wish me luck, so glad to be here! 🤘

Hey, Carl here! Started listening to CodeNewbie back in 2016/17 when I was first learning to program. The community played a key part in introducing me to the wider world of software development and I would like to give back in sharing everything I have learnt since then. I really like digging into the source code of open-source libraries and blogging about my discoveries.

Hey All, I am Tapas from Bangalore, India. I am a technology blogger and public speaker. I love sharing the knowledge gain and interacting with like-minded people. I'm excited to be here to learn and share my knowledge of web development and software engineering. You can also find me active on Twitter(@tapasadhikary) sharing tips.

Hi all!

I'm Jarret - I'm a junior software engineer and creative technologist, and a Flatiron School alum! CodeNewbie and Dev.to have been pretty integral to my journey, so I'm excited to be here! I'm looking to learn more on creative coding and open source work, and I'll always be working on my fundamentals.

Hi there! I'm Cyn. I work in technical support but I'm learning to code and hope to move into development. I'm studying JavaScript at the moment.

When I'm not working or studying I spend time with my family, read, make music, knit, and play TTRPGs.

Hi all! I'm Ty, currently working through front-end and hoping to perfect (is that possible? lol) back-end in the near future. I work in communications and would love to see what everyone is working on. I hope all of you are doing excellent!

Hi. Looking forward to using the new format. Great community. Recent bootcamp grad.

Hey all 👋

Really excited about this! Can't wait to see how it grows!

Hi everyone👋
I’m Asaolu Elijah, front end developer & technical writer from Nigeria 🇳🇬.

I’m really excited for a platform like this, that’s aimed at help helping code newbies easily find their way around programming.

Howdy everybody!

I'm Greg! Also known as Gregory (if your Mom and are mad at me) or Greggles (if you are my CEO (literally, he has picked up my nickname and calls me nothing else 🥰).

I have been on a wild ride to get to where I am now! I work at WeTransfer, started as a junior support agent, worked my way up to team lead but then switched careers and brought all my knowledge of our users with me to become a junior frontend engineer!

I started 2 weeks before corona hit and we went into lockdown... so, its been a challenge!

Looking forward to being part of this community! I was only dreaming of something similar last week, so thank you!!!

Hey, I'm JC 😁. Learnt the MERN stack - somewhat 😅. Sometimes I write tutorials when I think it'd help someone. Nice meeting y'all!!

Hi everyone! So excited to see the new CodeNewbie Forem! My name is Nick Taylor and I'm a senior software engineer at Forem.

Hi There!

Nick Taylor ・ Jan 14 ・ 1 min read

#introductions

Howdy, folks! I've been working in tech for over ten years, but I'll always consider myself a code newbie. Like many of you, I switched careers to get into tech. It wasn't easy but I haven't regretted it for even a moment. Now I do what I can to share what I know and continue to be humbled by all that's still left to learn!

Hi everyone! Gracie Gregory here — Content Manager @ Forem and an admin of the CodeNewbie Community. I'm SO excited about this inclusive space for folks starting their coding journeys and those looking to inspire beginner programmers 😊

Hi friends. I've been hanging around CodeNewbie and DEV for a while. I'm very happy to see CodeNewbie is getting a home beyond the Twitter chat. My favorite topics to write about are Javascript and CSS for beginners.

Hey y’all! I’m Mina and I’m a software engineer based in Chicago. I pivoted from a theatre career about three years ago via the coding boot camp route.

I love talking and answering questions about changing careers, going to bootcamp and apprenticeships with others thinking of doing the same!

I’m a Ruby/Rails developer mostly, but can also carry weight in the JS/React ecosystem.

Hi all! I'm Lem Adan, also a former boot camper and currently a software engineer. Outside of my job, I love building and growing tech communities. Looking forward to seeing this vibrant community grow!

Hi all! I’m Scooter and I’m a former sysadmin & hobby coder to Bootcamp grad turned Solution Architect. I’ve been part of the Codenewbie community since before the 1st Codeland.

I’ve moved away from programming a bit, but I still dabble in python.

Hello everyone! I'm Andy and a software engineer at Forem :) Big fan of the CodeNewbie podcast and the other productions!

Hi everyone! I'm here. Coded in college but it's been almost 20 years since then. So here I am, newbie status. Goals are to improve my HMTL/CSS and learn Javascript for web development and Python for cybersecurity. Looking forward to connecting with other codenewbies!

Hi everyone! I'm Sarah and I'm a front-end web developer from Canton, Ohio. Right now I'm working on making the switch from freelance to a remote front-end web developer job. I look forward to chatting with everyone in the community and helping other devs with their coding journeys.