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The "thing" in getting things done is fuzzy. For you it was a "meaningless" puzzle. For me it was an implementation of Conway's game of life. For others it was
by zaphar 14y ago
The "thing" in getting things done is fuzzy. For you it was a "meaningless" puzzle. For me it was an implementation of Conway's game of life. For others it was modifying their wordpress blog or making automating their financial tracking.
The point is there is something you want to do and you used a programming lanaguage to do it. As a result:
* You were self guided not following someone elses steps.
* You were rewarded with some self confidence when it worked.
That's the tipping point the OP was talking about I think.
- bryanh 14y agoOP here: exactly what I meant.
- lubutu 14y agoI suppose what I'm trying to say is that for me it wasn't that there was "something I wanted to do and I used a programming language", but rather that I wanted to use a programming language so I found something to do. For me it was about the (self-guided) achievements and challenges: I wasn't "hacking a way to a solution," and would often return to the same problem and solve it again and again, never "falling back to really hacky solutions to get things done." It's a bit fuzzy (things do get done either way), but I think there is a distinction in approach.