Honestly, the two things that kept me motivated to keep writing (actually writing, not just "oh hey this is cool") code when I was learning were games and my gi

Honestly, the two things that kept me motivated to keep writing (actually writing, not just "oh hey this is cool") code when I was learning were games and my girlfriend. Games - We were learning how to play Pathfinder, so I wrote a little character creation thing in Python. Girlfriend - thought it was awesome when I wrote her letters that were interactive programs. Though I found out later she didn't want to go through multiple times to find everything I'd written, so she just skipped to reading the source.