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  1. Sorry brain dump **I didn't ask for your life story bro** haha, 24 hours no sleep, just got out of the gym
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  3. To answer your question, no certification. It's just my ability, work on UI/UX/Front end logic as well as back end, server management, building APIs, etc...
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  7. I learned on my own. I've been developing since 2013, I was a super noob back then. I could not be given a UI eg. a drawing or mockup and turn it into a working interface eg. positioned correctly, responsive and does things with JS. Now it's easy. Same with back end, while I am stuck with LAMP at the moment, I can setup your basic CRUD operations for some application that deals with a database. Create APIs that output JSON to be consumed by other services. Create parsers like generate or iterate over CSV forms, scrape stuff, basic user authentication, tenant-data separation.
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  11. Now it's cool I can build random things, I built my own [home security system with raspberry pi](https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/raspi-home-security-cam/) that uploads to the cloud (Amazon S3) done with Python, I have an [automatic solar plotter thing](https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/raspi-home-security-cam) (solar cells taped to my window, connected to raspberry pi, uploads to a server/chart/takes automatic screenshots). I was for a while having [a script read website comments out loud](https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/python_aws_polly_hacker_news_article_reader) through AWS Polly (text to speech) in particular Hacker News. Then weather/my own alarms, but it gets annoying after a while. 
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  15. After you can read code, then you can read APIs/docs and work with them as well as modify code like existing plugins, you can trace the execution and change it.
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  19. I actually started going to school for Physics/Engineering and did not have any interest in coding/development at the time, though I was into fixing computers/doing tech support as a part time job. I was introduced to some programming eg. with C++ but it was basic terminal stuff like working with strings/creating a hangman game. I only did the bare minimum to pass that class/was not interested at the time.
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  23. I later tried to get into Comp-sci before I effed' myself in terms of education/tuition. Took some hardware-oriented classes pretty cool and Java, man I was bad... like we had to make a four square game and I couldn't get nested loops so I brute-force wrote down 42 different lines(win checks), it was stupid.
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  27. I got into building websites because I had this figure stuck in my head (generate 20,000 unique views a day, make $100,000/year). I made a lot of dumb websites and was not aware of things like sql-injection and also bots were hitting my comment sections with Viagra ads.
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  31. Got a lot of help you know, PHPFreaks, CodingForums, pretty much every coding forum haha, I joined and asked dumb questions. Got banned on Stack Overflow a lot(asking bad questions). Started with W3Schools too I know they hate on that.
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  35. If you're interested let me know I can get you in a direction, but I will offer a disclaimer that I'm not caught up to the modern standards, but I can definitely get you started with plain HTML/CSS/JS/PHP/MySQL, server administration, DNS(pointing a domain name to a server), etc... Although people recommend sites often like Code Academy and other sites. Mostly it comes down to building things that you want, then you can get that awesome feeling of building something and it solidifies the concepts because you had to figure something out to achieve your goal.
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  39. The biggest thing I've worked on professionally so far and most recent is a [medical website regarding CDSS](https://medtx.org). I did a lot of work here on different scales. Most of the front end is stock and it's built on WP on AWS EC2 with Nginx. I did a lot of back end work for it and also some UI work for specific sub-applications.
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