Allow Me to Introduce Myself...
Tags: beginners, career, javascript, react
Published: 2020-11-30 03:49:35

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## Hi, I'm Kyla and...
![preston](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/8vuco7d3lrnjnl64fqiw.jpg)
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![itsMe](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/cfcfkb4axoaxl7cl4zaz.png)
## ...this is me. 
### You're probably wondering how I got here...
### Well let's see. I guess I'll start from the beginning! 
##### I spent my entire life in the military. 
##### My step-dad was in the military when I first met him and because of that, I have been fortunate enough to move all over the U.S. and live in Turkey. My dad retired after 20 years and in that time, I met the love of my life. He was tall, intelligent, and more important, he liked me. He too joined the military! He asked me to marry him and I moved out to Monterey, California to live with my Iraqi linguist. ![hubsmonterey](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/snb6kchey9ma6xsk9qtt.jpg)
##### We LOVED Monterey and Carmel but alas, we had to move on. Orders demanded it. And so, onto our next destination! But wait...not until a very important and unique experience was to become a part of our lives. I cannot delve too deep but... let's just say we started a professional blackjack team. 
##### You know that movie <em>21</em>? Well, yeah it's pretty freaking accurate. Well, somewhat anyway. Yes, I totally played the ditzy young girl that just so happened to be counting cards and signaling the BP (Big Player) to come sit when the count was high. 
![baha](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/qlmnsh2uif3idbpe3b2x.jpg)
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###### Bad ass? YES. 
##### From Monterey we moved to Navarre, Florida. Where's Navarre you ask? Good question. Navarre claims to be Florida's Best Kept Secret, ya know. 
##### It was there that my I experienced my first taste of programming. My husband was nearing the end of his enlistment and he was dabbling with an idea for a website. We talked about it and considered what it would take to bring a website to life. At the time we were concerned about the cost of hiring a developer as well as whether we would need to worry about them taking our idea. It's funny to think about now. 
##### So, I decided to look into web development. I did what any good future developer would do and Googled it! I happened upon Harvard's CS50 course on edX.org. ![cs50](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/fvxhso75lgda0485ci8n.png)
##### With the course I created the cheesiest game with Scratch.
![zombiescratch](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/twfeuvko5aldqy2yokdx.png) 
#####It's SOOO bad but I look back it makes me smile at how far I've come.
##### After my husband finished his military enlistment, we moved to Kansas City where I decided that I wanted to leave my job as a teacher and pursue a career in development.
##### After my decision to make the career change, I went full programmer and haven't slowed down since.
![port](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/jf0gk8ckjsisng9v4a07.png)
 
##### I have and still do dedicate all of my free time to learning and building. In the year that I've been self-studying, I have created projects with ReactJs, React Router and hooks, Redux, Google Cloud Firestore, Material-UI, Formik, PostgreSQL, ExpressJS, NodeJS, and TypeScript.
##### At this moment I am learning TailwindCSS.   
#### I have done some pretty cool things in my life and I do not intend on slowing down any time soon. 
##### I intend to continue posting but from here they will be informative. I will teach you all as I am learning. It's my understanding that it is a great way to learn and so here I am sharing this very goofy and very much me post. 
##### Thank you all for reading if you got this far. If you have any questions or would like for me to write any specific posts, please let me know! I am happy to oblige! Love to you all!