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| 28 Mar 2015 10:15 PM |
I know this is kind of an odd question because you can't really force yourself into a hobby, but I sometimes have spare time and I just want the mindset of: "Man I can't wait to go home and work on x or do some programming" I am sure that I want to go into a career as a software developer. However I wouldn't say that I practice a lot in my spare time (which I should). Right now I'm only a freshman, but I really want to get myself into a good position for future prospects. I originally chose CS because I've always been around computers and I love them. I've tried self-taught programming in the past but always gave up as it was pretty difficult to learn without an instructor for me. I feel like I enjoy programming when I know what I'm doing, but when I don't know how to do something I get pretty frustrated and uninterested. I don't know any full languages yet, but we are learning C++. Anyway I think it's important for me to actively learn to enjoy programming, because otherwise I'm just wasting my spare time. Does anyone have any experience with this? I want to be able to do this now so I have the will-power to keep learning when I move into my career. Also because it's rad as hell being able to create things that can do anything you want (within reason).
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| 28 Mar 2015 10:16 PM |
this is RT our most smart person has an IQ of 40
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| 28 Mar 2015 10:24 PM |
What you're talking about isn't a hobby then. It's training for the future possibility of doing programming as a job. And that's a different thing than just doing something for fun or to relax after a long day. The fun is usually gone kind of fast when you have to do something as a job, even if it was something like playing video games. Playing video games for a job isn't the same as when you just played cause you wanted to with no worries or responsibilities attached to it.
Anyhow, I sort of think if you're serious about taking up programming as a career, then you don't want to think of it as a hobby. It's gonna be training, discipline, and lots of hard work learning everything you need to. |
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