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I posted it mostly for nostalgia reasons. I read this years and years ago when I first started programming in QBasic. The article itself hasn't aged well (it's

by dhotson 18y ago

I posted it mostly for nostalgia reasons. I read this years and years ago when I first started programming in QBasic. The article itself hasn't aged well (it's all over the place). I'm not sure why, but recently I was thinking about it because I've been unable to get anything done on my side projects. I still wanted to ask the question: Do you suffer from programmer's apathy?

dmoney 18y ago
I, for one, enjoyed the article, even if it's not the type of stuff I'd want to see on the front page all the time. Even if none of the tips apply to the 1337 folks here, I think the problem of apathy developing toward projects you supposedly started for fun is worth thinking about. I've certainly experienced it. A couple random thoughts: Pseudocode is the ultimate high-level language. I can think of a few recent problems it might have have helped me think through. The article advocates focusing on one slice of the program at a time to avoid apathy. While nowadays vertical slices are trendy, this advocates horizontal slices, A.K.A., the Waterfall Model. Is this the answer to apathy?