d_heyzie

Hey, as the profile thingy under my name says, im trying to learn C++ but i seem to be lacking motivation and my learning has become almost static. I'm just wondering what kind of stuff you ppl do when you find you're losing motivation while trying to learn programming and computing related topics
(if you ever do..).

DaWei

Git in ther and lern C++, er I'll kick yer ayuss. (What the hey, it motivated my kids.)

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d_heyzie

Yes sir! right away sir!.. lol

For some reason that kind of motivation works in a reverse way, ask my dad...

DaWei

Try doing things with it you haven't done before. If you aren't into the STL, try some of that. Get a little deeper into the machine. Write a dialog-based Windows program to open and close the CD tray. Look over all your old stuff and replace the fonky "system" calls with the Real Thang. If you aren't really interested in it, of course, there's not much to do but deep-six the whole thing and learn something else.

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zorin

Just think in 4-5 years time where will you be. Put on some hard trance music or somthing (none of that classical crap). Think of the end goal and of what you want the program/application to be like. Read job descriptions for top C++ jobs and when you think (holy shite, I suck) then that should motivate you unless you want to be a cleaner/dustbin man then that should work.

Infinite Recursion

Determine what problems face your community or society as a whole... something that could be given an automated solution... then develop a plan of action and implement it. Stand to make a chunk of change if it is good.

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nnxion

It's one of those things where I lose interest for a bit but gain it a day later because I see something of interest. If you write a program, like a small game it will give you motivation to continue later because you already have the experience of making a little game so you can proceed to more challenging things.

If you don't like it, you don't like it. I can tell my sis all the things I think are interesting about computers but she just could not care less for anything that even comes close to computers.

David do you know where 'deep-six' comes from?

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NSchnarr

Stop trying to memorize syntax. COme up with a neat idea for a project and work on that instead of reading a dull book about syntax. For example, there is no reason for you to learn how to create and work with a binary search tree unless you need it for what u are working on. Sure they are a great way of storing sorted data, but reading about it for no reason but to try and memorize is dull.

Enjoy yourself, the syntax (and hence language) will follow.

King

If you are just starting to program, and you already have no Motivation, programming isn't for you.

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DaWei

Of course I do. I'm an ex-swabbie.

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