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Come home from work and do one productive thing, every day. I'm tired of feeling lazy but not feeling motivated to do anything but play video games and generally be a slob.
Find a better place to work. Just started as a software engineer, fresh out of college. I come home and I am constantly learning, which I enjoy, go to work and introduce new ideas and am shot idea not because of my ideas but beucasue im a newbie. Over the past couple of month has eatten away at my confidence and starting to just blow it off. :(
You could take a self-paced MOOC and master its contents in a month.
that could be a nice idea. Because you seem to have understood the goal of my question, I'll dig deeper. I need ideas on the WHAT. Like what would you take a MOOC on? The idea is that there's so many things I might not have even thought of that you might consider...!
In general, it's probably a better idea to strengthen one's foundation as they serve as the prerequisites for more advanced subjects. Google's guide to technical development [0] is a good place to start.
As far as just finding courses to take, you could just search the course catalogs of sites like Coursera, edx, Udacity, and Stanford's online offerings [1].
[0] https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/guide-to-techn...
I'm writing a little block-based file system for a virtual computer for kids, I hope to have it done this month!
Become location independent.
Launch my coliving platform http://colive.co
Make my VR game where you can catch street cats and eat ramen http://bar254.tokyo
I'm writing a little block-based file system for a virtual computer for kids, I hope to have it done this month!
This sounds awesome! Is there a link to your project or source code you could share?
Around two years ago, the codebase was out of control and it was getting impossible to maintain or add features. I had gone crazy with features on my server side.
I started an open source rewrite with my dream build system and good design and testing methodologies. That codebase is here:
https://github.com/clubcompy/kidcompy/tree/develop
Then, I came to my senses a little bit. The crufty JQuery codebase can be refactored, buttoned up, and turned into a MVP! I could sell subscriptions to the thing as-is, it seemed to me. It's not everything I hoped it could be, and I'm very embarrassed by the poor code quality, but there is value there. I just need to complete something and focus on selling.
So, I paused on the new open source codebase, and set about preparing my original closed source code for a commercial release. Part of that prep is removing the cloud storage for the user's virtual file system. The new MVP plan is to use the user's HTML5 Local Storage or IE6-8 UserData as their persistent storage for programs and data. That is what I'm working on right now. I just got folders working, so only files, extents, attributes, and a syscall interface remains!
I realize that the open source codebase is the only long term way to go. When my main competition is open source, I need to be as well. And, since I'll be marketing a service for kids, it will help with gaining parents' trust for me to be open with the code and the data I collect. Assuming that the MVP shows some life and gets some interest, the plan is to put the old codebase into maintenance mode and move all development to the github codebase, migrating users over to the new compy once I have everything reimplemented there.