Hello Ivan. Extremely happy to join your course and for me this is something life changing. I am “Syed Meesam Ali” a civil engineer by profession but a passionate programmer. I have been programming with VBA (mostly automation of Excel, Word and Outlook) and had been active member of advanced excel forums. Recently I had started a course on edx for JScript as well as Python. I did small projects in Python as well.
I got deeply interested in Crypto-currencies last year November 2017 when the whole crypto thing looked way more serious with actual real life uses. Now i am a crypto holder and trader but always wanted to go advanced in this space. Quite happy to join your course and hopefully upon completion of this course i can entirely change my line of work and get a job in an entirely new but very exciting and long-term field of crypto world.
sounds like your about 4 years older than me, ya, its time to change the world, but in a good way, not a US President kind of way.
Hello from Lebanon. I’m here to learn about blockchain while I wait for moons and lambos. 
Hey Guys, Hello from Canada…I am more new to forums and social media than I am to computers. Grew up in the DOS days, spent half my youth in front of computers, then just before windows and internet came out, I took a 10 Year break, so there was a bit of a gap coming back into things. I started playing with Arduino coding a few years back, and Just jumped into blockchain with both feet late 2017, I am doing some Mining and would love to learn some smart contract coding in hopes of being able to make an income with some great ideas…I absolutely love all the positive energy you guys seem to bring to the table, looking forward to learning with you all…
YellowCake AKA Bradley
Hi,
I am based in Australia and currently working as a BI Developer (SQL Server, SSAS, SSIS, Power BI etc).
I took an interest in cryptocurrency earlier this year and have been hooked since!
I would like to get into the programming side of cryptocurrency, particularly EOS dapp development.
I signed up for Ivans Smart Contract Programming course and look forward to being part of this community.
Cheers,
Robbie
Hey all, Kai from the U.S. I’ve always been interested in learning how to code but life got in the way. I have the time available now so I will use it wisely. Started following Ivan last year as he was the best resource for info on IOTA, liked what I saw so you have my support. Figured the best way to be a catalyst for mass adoption is to develop, like the saying goes “if you build it, they will come” Good luck to us all!
Hello, and welcome guys, smashing the likes on youtube got me here 
I’m a IT Analyst by day out of Toronto -I knew at one point I have to jump into coding … so I thought this will be a great opportunity to do so.
Cheers! 
Hi this is Chaos. I am from New York. I did JS development 10+ years ago. Now I am in tech management (glorified administrator). I want to go back to programming. This is a good place for me to start…
I like to spend time with family and photography. Looking to meet you.
My name is Jeff. I currently work in a private equity company in their technology department as a business analyst / client engagement lead. I started learning about Blockchain 2 months back. My goal is to get into the blockchain space, so this will be a great way to meet people and learn programming specific to blockchain.
Hi IOT Family! Great to link up here. I have no coding experience but I do work at a tech company, and work on the business development side. It’s my hope to surprise myself with my accomplishments on this course. I’m excited about the blockchain space, which has motivated me to give this new chapter a shot here.
I live in Vancouver, so I’m on PST timing. Outside of my day job, I like to act and hike; and act like I’m hiking or training for a marathon… Those are enough crumbs on me 
Looking forward to making new friends on this forum!
Hi everyone, I’m Rach. I studied Computer and Information Science many years ago but haven’t done any programming for a long long time! I got into crypto in June/July last year. I love the the potential for change in the world that some projects offer/aspire to and of course enjoy the ‘speculation’ side of things too. With this course I hope to dust off a few cobwebs and start a new journey that allows me to put these skills to use and be a part of that change. I look forward to meeting you all along the way! 
Hey, I’m Hakan from Slovenia. Crypto is pretty big here especially among young people, mostly because of profit opportunities obviously. I’m a hodler of a modest portfolio too but it’s really the technology that excites me. Because I’d like to learn more about it I signed up to Ivan’s Smart contracts programming course. I think it will be perfect since I’m a different kind of engineer and my programming knowledge is just basic but Ivan says he will teach everything from scratch :). Looking forward to it!
Hi lovely people. My name is Ying and I know nothing about programming but I am inspired by Ivan and I am determined to learn and grow with everyone here. I believe humanity is at the pivotal point and cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology are definitely catalysts.
Love this community…
Hi Everyone, hello Ivan, I am Ray and live in Florida USA(
) I have been into cryptos and learning about blockchain tech and uses since last January after the December rally in BTC and cryprocurrencies catched my attention. I am very enthusiastic about this new technologies and their revolutionary significance to our world technical evolution. I am very exited about this course and glad to be part of this amazing community. Thank you Ivan for putting together this course for all of us!
Hallo everyone! Really excited to finally invest in myself by taking time to learn how to code and in specific languages that I hope to make full use of when I have completed the courses I fully immersed myself into blockchain this year from a public perspective, but as I have a banking background, have been familiar with the private blockchain for some time. Crypto in regards to tokenization is quite new for me, but encryption I was learning about back in 2015 with machine learning algorithms. I would like to learn how to program ETH, EOS, and NEM to help me better understand the future potential of blockchain and how I can be a more active part of the technology and one day work on a project of my own.
Hallo everyone.
I am in Crypto space since 01.2018 and i am trying zu catch up,with the old ores. I am running a buisiness on my own ( it has nothing to do with Crypto/Blickchain)
I am taking part in the coding academy. Coding is new to me,but a good challamge at this point.
I am living in Düsseldorf Germany.
Hi all, I’m Val from New York. No experience in the programing field but very enthusiastic about all things blockchain. Eager to learn as much as possible. I’m passionate about trading (stocks mainly swing/day trading), epic movies (LOTR), and rock music. Glad to become part of this community. Thank you Ivan for all that you and your team are doing. You guys rock!
Greetings everyone! I am here to learn, absorb, and assimilate as much applicable knowledge as humanly possible to forward the overall goal of mass adoption. I have been interested in programming for most of my life and I have worked on several proprietary applications with my IT company. I want to dive further and expand my knowledge, I seek to create my own decentralized applications and related technologies and to use my experiences to help spread the word in my local area about the benefits cryptocurrencies have to offer our modern economic world. I am here to follow dreams and leave doubt behind. Lets do this!
Hi Team,
Dangerous Dave here from down under, can’t wait to learn about the blockchain and disrupt this mofo!
Hi all, you can call me Kola. I was initially introduced to Ivan youtube channel by Datadash and I immediately fell in love with his channel and with all his good and quality contents, it is my belief that he will continue the quality work. As per the crypto world, I started late 2017, and I have been educating myself since then which is why I enrolled on this course. Since I missed out on the past revolutionary technologies when they are still very early stage, this one will not pass me by. Thanks Ivan for this opportunity and I look forward to learning from everybody.