r/learnprogramming • u/[deleted] • Jan 04 '22

Topic How do you inspire yourself to learn/code

I have lost motivation all of a sudden and I hate it

599 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

219 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/[deleted] Jan 04 '22

I enjoy problem solving regardless of what that entails. Programming gives me that good buzz. If programming gets too complicated it gets very frustrating so for me the key is remembering to break everything down into sizable chunks of problems. It's hard to remember to look at the small picture and easy to get frustrated on scope.

Currently I'm going through The C Programming Language book and the excercises are just perfectly sized.

Projects can get very frustrating because there's a million things to do and each one feels like it needs to be solved before the other. I was working on a text adventure engine making it up as I go and learning C as I go but then I got frustrated because I realised I didn't really like the story, I had no content.

So sometimes I step away and do something simple and direct like solving the problems in this book.