The Ugly Side of Learning to Code
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The Ugly Side of Learning to Code
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Re: The Ugly Side of Learning to Code
#2"As a result I've become more focused, more logical and smarter. But I've also become more detached from everyday life and less fun to hang out with. I'm not sure yet if the change is permanent, but I certainly hope that it can be undone :)"
6 months away from programming, and you'll be fine :)
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#3Code is a messy experience.
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#4"As a result I've become more focused, more logical and smarter. But I've also become more detached from everyday life and less fun to hang out with. I'm not sure yet if the change is permanent, but I certainly hope that it can be undone :)" 6 months away from programming, and you'll be fine :)
Coding definitely made me feel like I was getting dumber the first few years. idk if anyone else experienced the feeling from holding so much logic in your head and then going back to reality would give me an exhausted feeling mentally. Anyways, that was a long time ago and I've learned how to roll with it since then. Now I'm even more fun to hang out with :)
Now that I think of it, at first we're overloaded learning programming. And then we reach a point where we really know a lot about all kinds of things and we hunt for new things to learn because we've lost that 'overloaded' feeling. I know I scour ycombinator and reddit and other blogs a lot for new interesting programming things to learn about.
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#5Sorry guys if you get a server error page, seems like my heroku dev postgres can't handle ANY traffic. I haven't implemented connection pooling yet and I run out of db connections way to quickly ... will try to fix it or set up my own db!
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#6When I'm with friends, I'll get caught up in how a service, site, or app is assembled (i.e. interfaces, wrappers, cloud server connections, etc), and take a conversation with friends off on a tangent they aren't interested in.
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#7> "I'll never become a good programmer, but I strive to be the most capable brogrammer I can be."
Being a competent programmer is a prerequisite to being a "brogrammer" (whatever that means).
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#8> is it possible to become a decent programmer ...
No.
> ... and build a MVP in just six months?
Yes.
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#9I wish more business guys would try to learn programming, so well done sir. But I do have a quibble with this statement:
> if you want to become a programmer, you have to be comfortable with having to learn new things constantly for the rest of your life".
In my experience, the quickest way to tell that someone is not cut out to be a programmer is when they complain about the amount of continual learning that is a requirement of the job. The only way you can become a great programmer is if you LOVE learning new things, and the prospect of there being a great wide expanse of things yet unlearned fills you with excitement instead of dread.
So I think beyond having to be comfortable with that process, it better be something innately necessary to you or you will get burned out on this job.
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#10tweiss, by actually building the full-stack (front-end to back-end and deployment/ops), you've compressed the "out-of-comfort-zone" feeling all programmers eventually face from years to a few months. Bravo!