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Re:Loosing interest to code. by 5hoom on Saturday October 15, 2011 @11:06AM (#3114919)
A fun project with a clear goal is a helpful start, but you probably also need to get a few wins under your belt.

With a job where you're just propping up a rotting old codebase, programming probably just feels like crap after crap. Start a project where you can have something cool happen after just a couple of hours of coding.

The feeling of things actually progressing gives a lot of drive to continue. I guess thats the reasoning behind setting small, achievable milestones.

Go code up something fun & immediately gratifying :)

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Re:Loosing interest to code. by iworkforthem on Sunday October 16, 2011 @10:42AM (#3117396)
it helps to make it as transparent as possible too.. tell as many friends about it.. do a tell hn: thread.. chances are you wont back out from it there after.
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Re:Loosing interest to code. by techslam on Saturday October 15, 2011 @12:12PM (#3115069)
-Seeting up achievables goals is what should work. Needs to plan on that now.
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