i dont program but if i did id proballey just use scripts and ai for everything and not learn anything

what do you do to motivate yourself to keep going/stop yourself from not learning new things

this is a programing qutestion but if you have advice on anything about not cotnetive ofloading and staying disclipened that would help )

  • jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    I fundamentally don’t understand being a script kiddie (scripts from other people) because my number two Pain Causing Learning Activity is using other peoples libraries (after University Writing Projects), but I share the want/need discrepancy between how much I want to learn and how much might be good for me if I just got started.

    • jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      3 days ago

      I get very motivated to program things in pointless sandboxes, like ComputerCraft, Fancade, Logo (programming language), Geometry Dash. This might train my brain and teach me some basic concepts like SoA vs AoS (fancade, but accidentally), network architecture (ComputerCraft), but I’m also not really sure what to do for relevant reality topics.

      I also do codegolf.stackexchange.com which has some pretty cool challenges.

      • jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 days ago

        Also Tris ‘No Boilerplate’ Oaten got me into programming some random stuff in Rust, which is a very cool language because it has enums and a type system and a distinction between borrowing an object via a pointer and giving it over via a pointer (really sucks to implement a lisp in C because it doesn’t have this, or at least it requires new C experience I don’t have that borrow checking elegantly replaces)

        Also you might read https://browser.engineering/ or you might read https://wayland-book.com/ to implement what browser engineering does while importing less other peoples code, or watch Handmade Hero, though I haven’t personally gotten very far on that.