i wanna have fun programming again - eviltoast

after a grueling 4 years of school and a bit of time at a fintech company ive lost almost all the enjoyment i once had for computers in high school. what kind of projects or whatever can i do to have fun again without feeling stressed.

edit: thanks everyone for such creative suggestions!! anything else on the internets just like build a trivia game teehee but yall put real thought into this shit, thank you!!

  • gerryflap@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Interesting how college ruined your love for programming and work got it back. For me it’s almost the complete opposite. Studying Computer Science constantly fed me with new interesting ideas, and I still had more time to play around with those ideas. At work I’m just implementing some button or some boring logic 40 hours a week and after that I’m too drained to explore any of my (many) ideas further.

    I guess it’s a difference in incentive. I don’t care whether anyone will use what I wrote, I just want to learn something new and explore ideas.

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      1 year ago

      Interesting how college ruined your love for programming

      it was probably the general pressure and depression.

      and work got it back

      the costumers and the colleague were nice people. I enjoyed solving actual real-life problems.

      Studying Computer Science constantly fed me with new interesting ideas, and I still had more time to play around with those ideas.

      after my first job, I went back to college (uni?) to get my masters. There I had lots of fun implementing some of the theoretical stuff.