Programming Experience - My Journey (3 years) - Keep Practicing - Open Source Rocks!

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  • Which brings me to the summer of 2020 I was contacted by another guy who found an open source project that I posted on Github. From there I began working full-time for him as a 1099. I was able to release my first production application that takes a web form and converts it to a PDF and uploads it to a cloud database. I also became a top 5 contributor to an open-source project owned by the Dotnet Foundation called Oqtane. Contributing to open-source was a HUGE step for me. I was able to see how other people coded in a "real" project and I was able to communicate with other developers. (I had been coding by myself for years, cause my brother is more of a game designer not a programmer) By the end of 2020 I quit my full-time job to become a "freelance programmer". I truly feel like I have a solid grasp on programming now. Even though I know that I don't know everything (that's just part of programming) I know how to learn the things that I don't know. As an example, a couple months ago i wanted to merge a couple discord servers that only had a channel or two. So I looked for a bot to do that and couldn't find one that was free and copied more than 100 messages... So I created my own in 8 hours in a single night.

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