I had never viewed programming as something that could be a job I could get paid to do.
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Lyons, asked me if I’d ever considered software development as a major in college, and as a career path. Noting that programming came easily for me, my teacher, Mr. Influenced by my father’s technology-based career, programming was a regular hobby of mine from then until my junior year of high school when I enrolled in a beginning programming class. By the end of the session, I had the teacher asking me, “Oh, that’s cool! How did you make it do that?” I peeked at the documentation and poked around a bit (okay, okay – I’ll stop with the puns), and found myself able to do things far beyond the scripted lesson we were working through. I’ve been a professional software developer for over 25 years, however my first experience writing software was in 4th grade when I was one of a handful of kids that were sat down in front of some VIC-20s to learn some very basic (ha!) programming. How long have you been a developer, and what got you started in the tech world? In addition to his Github contributions, Dave has become an active member of our community Slack channel, proving to be a true team player, one of the key tenants of being an open source programmer. They’ve since built on top of the repo, adding enhancements based on their needs, as well as the needs of the community. He, along with the rest of his team at The Refinery, found a straightforward solution with the SparkPost Rails gem, originally built by Kevin Kimball. It was this situation that our featured community member, Dave Goerlich, found himself in several months ago.
When faced with a transition to a whole new platform as many people were earlier this year, building on the solutions the community has already found can save you an invaluable amount of time.
Being able to see what solutions other folks have already found can spark an idea that you or your team may not have thought of before. One of the biggest benefits of open source programming is the ability to work with other talented developers that you may never meet in person.
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