Newbie here, currently doing Udacity nano degree for full stack (mainly for Python as the other stuff I am confident with). Love this app, funny as f.

I'm curious why others decided to become Devs? I'm doing this because I have an idea for a webapp that will make me millions ;)

I became a Dev when I found that I loved programming.

I've split programming into two categories. Boring programming, and interesting programming.

I've never really liked doing the boring programming (obviously), so when I started programming, I did quite optimistic protects, such as making my own programming language, unfortunately none of them really worked. More recently, I've become more skilled, therefore I can now be more adventurous if you will. Now I'm making Lisp like languages and so on. For some of you, that might not be too exciting, but for me, it's been a goal one had in mind for years. Finally being achieved

If you're interested I've got a whole lot of projects I've made/been making.

Now back on topic - I'm usually more of a logical person. I enjoy maths too, so programming just seemed to fit. it's like an extension of my arm, I don't understand every bit of it, but I can control it to be more useful than a lump of metal.

And I'm still learning how it works ;)

P.S: I did not post this for any kind of payment. Also sorry for the long post ;)

@coolq Cheers!

@Matt-B no problem! Also like @trubesv said, welcome!

@trubesv thanks!

@coolq interesting. Never really been interested in maths myself but can see what a positive that would be for programming!

I'm now lucky enough to work from home and have a decent amount of free time so hence the push to improve my skills. Haven't really been doing to much the last three weeks however as our babysitter is on holiday (yes for three weeks in August) - that's France for you.

@Matt-B
Maths is a good tool, extremely good. It can be interesting, but some people decide that it is bad at the beginning, when it's boring. I'm lucky that I'm surrounded by people who are encouraging and also like maths.

@Matt-B my reason is the same as yours - to build up my own product. Been totally worth it so far, and I'm learning more advanced stuff everyday now

@vertti cool, same here - although advanced to me may be newbie stuff to half of the folk here.

@Matt-B what tech stack have you chosen for your web app?

@vertti honestly to even that far yet but have good process flow, interface designs etc.

What about your app and why...

@Matt-B I'm actually developing a few at the same time. I'm using react+redux for the frontend, and react native for another one (=it's a mobile app).

Backend is running on Erlang in one and in Elixir in the other one. Unmatched concurrency and fault tolerance. Really crazy stuff

@vertti sounds complex! I had a crack at laravel for a while doing a few (small) test apps deployed from forge. I like laravel although prefer Python frameworks.

@Matt-B yep good luck! I'm building soft real-time stuff so I need speed and scalability. Hence Erlang/Elixir

My friend circle led me to this. Had no idea what to do before.

@JackOffAll good decision or bad?

@Matt-B Probably the best decision I took or was coerced into taking. :P