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Forcing yourself to program

Name: Anonymous 2006-01-17 16:15

OK, so I'm self employed, which is to say, I live with my parents and have no formal income.

I'm working on an app that I think is really interesting, etc. But I find that whenever I come up to some annoying part, I work on it for like 10 minutes and then browse the internet for an hour.

SOme days I can work for 5+ hours without breaks, just because whatever section is interesting. But most days I end up going to sleep pissed off because I only did like an hours worth of work and wasted the rest of the time on the ienternet.

So give me tips, how do you get yourself through that incomprehensible yet somehow boring and repetitive code? I figure some of it is just because I dont have any sort of plan or anything for what i'm going to do (the app is pretty original) or when I'm going to do it, has that helped you? I've got no CS background or anything and i've always thought flowcharts were bullshit, but obviously some people like them.

I was working on it for like 6 months before i realized it was shit and started over, which was good for about a month but now i'm running out of steam. Yesterday I spent reading manga and today I tried to come up with a new meme for /b.

Sorry if this is bosnian, i wrote like 20 lines of code today. Fuck.

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-02 21:20

>>20
Your teacher was either total crap or you just didnt do the lab assignments. Programming isn't one of those subjects which you can learn "overnight". But you do get the gist of it when you do the lab assignments.

I was totally lost in the initial lab assignments and just copied works. Then I started to work seriously on the big assignment (with 2 weeks before the deadline). It was total hell but the result after I handed in was that I finally understood how to program proper working code. Since then I have been able to accomplish all programming assignments without that whole "I'm lost" problem. The only headaches I get now is figuring out how to solve this problem in the language I'm using which is what programming is all about.

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