# Introducing Myself
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/introducing-myself/637235
**Category:** talk
**Created:** [September 28, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/introducing-myself/637235 "2017-09-28T19:45:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Daniel\_Prodrick](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Daniel_Prodrick)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/introducing-myself/637235/1 "2017-09-28T19:45:16Z")
Hi everybody, just wanted to introduce myself! I am Dan, 29 years old living in Lincolnshire in the UK. I watched some of Kirupas videos about javascript (I especially like the one explaining event capture vs event bubbling) and ended up on the forum here!
I first discovered programming a few years ago when I started watching some java programming videos on youtube just out of curiosity. From the moment I started learning it I wished that I could become an expert and knew that I would love to do this for a job.At the time I was very depressed and although I loved coding, I didn’t think there was any point carrying on learning it because I was too old and did not have the formal education/qualification/degree.
About 6 months ago I learnt about the open university and now in 2 weeks I am starting my degree in Computing & IT! My aim is to get a job programming and I am really enjoying the javascript language and am thinking this is an area I would love to work in.
I have been studying like a madman for the last 6 months, following tutorials on html5, css3, java, javascript and some PHP. When I see something cool on a website I love to challenge myself by trying to recreate what I have seen. I love thinking about programming in terms of different objects interacting with each other and I love designing on pen and pad before I start coding, writing down the different objects and how they will interact etc…
Anyway I am basically still a noob and I would really love to be a part of a community where I can ask questions about programming and talking to other people who are interested in it! I hope I am in the right place 🙂 I often run into a brick wall and get very frustrated sometimes when learning. I feel like I wish I knew everything right now and I feel like I should have learnt this stuff 10 years ago! I hope to chat to many of you on here and read your posts and ask lots of questions!
Look forward to meeting everybody
Dan
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### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/introducing-myself/637235/2 "2017-09-28T21:25:43Z")
Welcome to the forums, Dan! This is a great place to learn and ask questions. You may even have fun as well haha.
🙂
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### Author:  [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2017, 2:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/introducing-myself/637235/3 "2017-09-29T02:21:59Z")
Yes welcome! Does anyone even use Java anymore?
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### Author:  [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2017, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/introducing-myself/637235/4 "2017-09-29T13:02:36Z")
> Does anyone even use Java anymore?
Its all about [Kotlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_(programming_language)) now.
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### Author:  [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/introducing-myself/637235/5 "2017-09-30T03:30:21Z")
Hey Dan; ask away!