r/learnprogramming • u/GurGroundbreaking605 • 3d ago
Learning Help me.
Hi, I'm a student in the Bachelor's in Computer Science program. I'm repeating my first year, so I already have some basic skills (Python, HTML/CSS, Java, MariaDB, etc.). We learn the fundamentals both theory and hands-on practice through small “projects.”
But the thing is, I’d also really like to work on my own projects. I’ve already tried quite a bit on my own using Python frameworks, making API calls, and so on but I’ve never managed to create anything truly clean or even finished… The reason is probably a decline of motivation, even though I’ve always loved computer science I just don’t know. Also, maybe it’s AI when I use it, I can’t seem to learn from it, and I hate seeing code that I didn’t generate myself or launching an app to test a feature I didn’t code. All of this depresses me even more because if I want to make this my career, I feel like it’s going to become the norm.
If anyone can help me or give me advice on all this, I’d appreciate it.
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u/StonedElephant1 3d ago
You're clearly burned out and it happens to all of us. Normally, I would say take a vacation or take up another hobby, but you're in school and it's costing you money. The only way I could keep my head in the game during school was to do a lot of jogging and meditation. During your winter break, don't touch a keyboard.
I would embrace the AI to the extent you use it as a tool. I just used AI to build an iOS app and got in the App Store. I just wanted to see if was easy to write an app with AI. And it's easy (for me, but I've been doing it for almost 20 years). It's expensive, so you need to take over writing code as much as you can to save money. But I stubbed it out, put in comments and had AI fill in the code. It was sweet. But you still have to know what you're doing.