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To be honest: I didn't know what to code. I took a few 100/200 level CS classes and always was engrossed and did well, and I even code at work (mostly VBA, som

To be honest: I didn't know what to code. I took a few 100/200 level CS classes and always was engrossed and did well, and I even code at work (mostly VBA, some simple MATLAB, and a proprietary language). I started learning Android development but never finished it because I had no idea that I really wanted to implement, no graded assignment to complete, and no monetary incentive. I guess the analogue would be that I've been paid to make tomato sauce and I've been graded on stretching dough, but I don't have a pizza in my head that I want to bake.

appleiigs 10y ago
It's unfortunate that a common first project idea is "hey, I should build a website", which is HTML and CCS - and isn't programming at all. Then when they go beyond that they'll hit the crazy fragmentation of web development.
Nadya 10y ago
+1,000 if I could. Honestly, this is my biggest issue with getting better at programming. I don't want to reinvent the wheel - and everything I want to exist already does exist and has an awesome implementation. "I want to be able to categorize my music as if it were my job." --> http://beets.io/ http://beets.io/ ---> "Oh, this exists and does everything I could possibly need." I want beets for arbitrary media (eg: tv shows, photos) but my current solution covers my needs - I'd just be switching over from grepping text files for queries to querying a database to obtain the same info...