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Project's motivation: Every time I get a new job I am being thrown right into middle of the action. No tutorials, no babysitting - just a real project and a ta

by rezoner 12y ago

Project's motivation: Every time I get a new job I am being thrown right into middle of the action. No tutorials, no babysitting - just a real project and a task to complete. It is a very stressful and frustrating at the beginning - but - after a short while not only I have completed the task - but also have this feeling that in a month of practice I've learned more than in a year of solving theoretical and imaginary problems. So - I've prepared an unfinished game - and a plot for you as a new employee. Let me know does it work for you and what was your experience with it. I am a bit nervous as this is the first time I am trying to make something more emotionally engaging than technical documentation. If you like the idea - I encourage you to copy all of my content - and adopt the stories for a different language. I will gladly link to different solutions.

vog 12y ago
This is great, and it is something we often had to do at university in computer science (at least in the "applied computer science" part). It's nice to see this great way of learning also outside the academic context.
themodelplumber 12y ago
I love this! I did something similar when a local high school student asked to shadow me for a day. He said he'd never done any programming but really wanted to learn. His parents were currently on welfare and his dad needed him around to help with a disability. I decided that rather than ask him to do mundane webdev tasks, I'd download a PyGame game that I'd been working on, make some changes to break it, and then ask him to work on the game. After the game was fixed, I asked him to look at another game and figure out how to add an audio track. Anyway, he had a fun time and I thought, "I wonder if anyone will ever do this sort of thing on a larger scale." :-) So I'm really happy to see it. Thanks again.

by rezoner 12y ago

vog 12y ago

This is great, and it is something we often had to do at university in computer science (at least in the "applied computer science" part). It's nice to see this great way of learning also outside the academic context.

themodelplumber 12y ago

I love this! I did something similar when a local high school student asked to shadow me for a day. He said he'd never done any programming but really wanted to learn. His parents were currently on welfare and his dad needed him around to help with a disability. I decided that rather than ask him to do mundane webdev tasks, I'd download a PyGame game that I'd been working on, make some changes to break it, and then ask him to work on the game. After the game was fixed, I asked him to look at another game and figure out how to add an audio track. Anyway, he had a fun time and I thought, "I wonder if anyone will ever do this sort of thing on a larger scale." :-) So I'm really happy to see it. Thanks again.