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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, either with a question or just a hello. šŸ‘‹

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Steven Adam Tucker

I'm old, I've been developing professionally for a while but never got involved in the open source community. I think I'd like to finally get involved and just get a pulse on the community. I'm mostly Java/Javascript but I'd like to get back into game development like I was back in college. What do most of y'all use for 2D or small scale games if anyone here is into that?

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Sherlock Chen

There are more options for smaller games than larger, 3D games, like godot and cocos are very popular, but nowadays, more creative developers aren't even bound to use game engines, such as just hand rubbing threejs, haha

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Steven Adam Tucker

Yea I think the last time I did any game development, Microsoft XNA Framework was still being supported, but yea you gotta be a particular type of dev to be using javascript to code games lol

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Ben Halpern

Great to have you!

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Jess Lee

Hello hello!

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Ankit

Yo, what's up? I'm Ankit. I'm in the process of learning Java, DSA, and the MERN stack, along with CS fundamentals and other cool things related to development. I joined this community to dive deeper into the dev community. Hope you all are having a good time!

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Saami abbas Khan

"Nice, bro! Keep learning and exploring. One recommendation is to avoid trying to do too many things at once. Focus on one thing, complete it, and then move on to the next. Just a suggestion; maybe it will work for you!"

Btw I am also doing java

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Ankit

Hey, thanks buddy. Btw I'm learning Java from Andrii Piatakha(Udemy), how about you? and any suggestions regarding java? I've started this monday only.

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Saami abbas Khan

Iā€™m following Timā€™s Java course on Udemy, and itā€™s also part of my curriculum. Java is a vast subject, so I recommend taking notes. I suggest using a tool like Notion to create a digital notebook for organizing everything. And of course, the importance of practice canā€™t be overstated. Practice, practice, and practice some more ā€” youā€™ll eventually start connecting the dots.

Feel free to reach out if you need anything. I might learn something from you as well.
Happy upskilling ā¤ļø

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Ankit

that was so sweet of you. surely, when i'd learn enough will discuss things with you.
till then, happy coding :)

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Steeve

Hello and Welcome Ankit!

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Beauty Okpani

My name is Chinaza Okpani. I'm here to learn how to manage projects, hope I'm welcomed in this forum?

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Steeve

@beauty_okpani_d9f8f2a92b5 Of course your are welcome, you will find a couple of articles about managing project. Feel free to write about your progress of project management: best practices / things to avoid / etc.

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Saami abbas Khan

Welcome

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Mirza Hanzla • Edited

The idea is that you create the personal chat system for the developers in this website (dev.to) Dev Community.

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Steeve

Hello Mirzia, I would recommend you to write one single comment instead of four, It will be better to understand your introduction message :D

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Mirza Hanzla

Thanks! šŸ™‚

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Zondi Mgiti

Hello Dev.to community! šŸ‘‹
I'm Zondi, a data engineer leading a team that delivers creative solutions. My work has evolved to include software development through APIs and microservices, and now infrastructure as code.

I joined after reading the Azure DevOps Series: From Zero to Hero, eager to learn how to integrate these components into automated workflows. Iā€™m excited to share my experiences and learn from the community!

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Iman Mombo

Hi,

I am Iman Mombo. I am a former Math Educator and an aspiring software developer. I am currently enrolled in this course to enhance and sharpen my software development skills, network with some amazing people, and support where I can. Community. Please let me know how I can support or synergize with you.

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Sharaf Husain

Hi everyone!šŸ‘‹

I'm a Laravel and React developer with 3 years of experience building web applications. Excited to connect with fellow developers, share knowledge, and learn from this amazing community. Looking forward to contributing and collaborating! šŸš€

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Ishwarya

Hello All!, I'm Ishwarya just being here by clicking some random notification on my mobile seeing someone's post about React and get to know the existence of this community and got excited by these community and I wanted to be a part of it.

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Aayush Singh

Hello Everyone, I am Aayush a second year engineering student . I am here to be the part of this community and interact with like minded people . I am currently learning web development (MERN) and also know java . Thanks!!

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Chris Arakelian

Hey everyone! I'm Chris, a well testing engineer with a passion for coding and starting my own projects. Although I'm fairly new to open source, I've already started a project that you can find on my profile or check out here. Every contribution, no matter how small, is greatly appreciated!
Let's build something together!

Feel free to reach out to me on GitHub, even if it's just to say hello šŸ‘‹

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Abu Ben Reaz

At first programming was fun to me. Then took a learning track. After that start professional work. The journey was from MS DOS. Starts with dBASE III Plus / FoxPro finally VB.net and C#. FoxPro to MS SQL Server and Oracle. A huge learning, practicing and working path. We are in track of never ending of learning.
Join Dev, for sharing and collecting experience.

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William Mansfield

Hi all, I'm Rick. I'm between jobs and looking for ways to improve my skills. I figured that to stay on top of trends, I'd join here to immerse myself with other programmers/coders who also want to stay on the pulse of our ever-changing tech world.

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Saami abbas Khan

Hello, I am Saami from India. I am currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in computer science and learning full-stack Java, but I plan to eventually dive into Spring Boot. I am passionate about technology and have previous experience working with Python and its libraries (Selenium, Pandas, Tk, beautiful soup etc.). I left that path midway (cause of something) and am now focusing on Java, hoping to excel in it!

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