Perhaps a 1) could be better served with asking a programmer why they started said interesting programming project. If they started a project for the specific p

Perhaps a 1) could be better served with asking a programmer why they started said interesting programming project. If they started a project for the specific purpose of learning a particular skill and they've already learned it, it would make no sense for them to complete it, I think. For example, I once started a bittorrent client in C just to learn how to use sockets and pthreads in C as well as understand the bittorrent protocol. While I never completed it (what would have been the point? there are already way too many out there and I did not have a unique take on the idea), I did accomplish what I set out to do.