Thread: Learning things
View Single Post
Old 06-28-2009, 09:55 AM   #5 (permalink)
Salathe
Moderateur
RegEx Guru PHP Guru Top Contributor Advanced Programmer 
 
Salathe's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 1,393
Thanks: 5
Salathe is on a distinguished road
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Village Idiot View Post
This is perfectly normal, since the object of programming is to accomplish a goal it seems normal for goal driven people to be drawn to it. Small goals to accomplish a big goal are the best way to go about it, set landmarks in the project and go from them.
Absolutely agree, it's all well and good having an end goal to accomplish but for anything but the teeniest, tiniest end goal it's good to break things up in smaller-than-bitesize pieces—for any number of psychological reasons that gets things moving along to the final objective much more smoothly. Without even an end goal in the distance, what is there to move towards!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Village Idiot View Post
For me now, money is my motivation. I still program a few hours a week (on and off) at small games in C++, but other than that I only program for work. I honestly don't think I've written a PHP program this year....
Is that because of lack of motivation (boredom with the language, exciting other things distracting, no/little pay?) that means you haven't gotten around to writing anything in PHP? Or is there simply not the time in the day, or have you just given up with PHP?
Salathe is offline  
Reply With Quote