All work and no fun makes Jack a dull boy
I’m taking a course in C#-programming but the only thing I learned so far is that this is not what I am meant to do. To me programming is like doing a puzzle: It really doesn’t leave much place for creativity, it’s no poetry in it. It’s not art or even science. It doesn’t evolve freely.
I really need room for my own thoughts and not just trying to learn what others have done so much better. I think that this in itself is a great lesson for me. I should study things that are meaningful to me.
Well, I made a bad choice in taking this course, but I still have to ride it through: Now for a week there is just hard work. Hard work and no fun. I kind of feel like Jack Torrence in the Shining: His novel consisted of a one liner repeated page after page, chapter after chapter, over and over again: All work and no fun makes Jack a dull boy. I still got a few pages like that to write.
June 4, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Have you done any coding in HTML before? I Have done tiny tiny programs in C++ a while ago, and it can actually be quite fun as long as it compiles correct… Do you know what the difference between C and C++ is?
June 4, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Yes I have written some pages in HTML.
I have written a new post to answer your question, which you can read if you like. (You should be careful when you ask me things like this. I have a tendency to start rambling.)
And yeah, I too find it kind of fun when it compiles. I which it did more often.
//The unfortunate programmer
June 4, 2007 at 8:52 pm
I agree with the t shirt. I rather be studying theology!:) :p
June 4, 2007 at 9:30 pm
June 5, 2007 at 11:06 am
[...] got a question about differences brands of C in the comments to my previous post “All work and no fun“. My answer however became quite lengthy (i’ll guess I answered to more than what was [...]
June 7, 2007 at 9:55 pm
I never think of these kinds of things as bad choices, because they help us narrow down our focus. So, we have lists with hundreds of things on them that we don’t like to do, and then this tiny, tiny little scrap of paper with the things on it that we do like to do. Or a t-shirt.