I doubt I'm unique in this area, but for me, programming is a drug. I have to code, or the ideas and thoughts build up in my mind. For me, actually writing down and implementing these is a stress relief. Just ask my parents when I was growing up, or my wife today. Keep me in a room without a computer for a week, and I'll start writing code on paper just to get the thoughts down.
So I guess you could say I'm an addict. Timothy Baldridge On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Ulises <ulises.cerv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Code that matters is code that's used by other people. For me personally > > the ability to share my code with others is the thing that makes > > programming worth doing in the first place. > > This is a rather important point. One of the most asked questions > (random made up fact) by newcomers to a language is "what can I code? > what open source programs can I help?". All with the aims of getting > better acquainted with the language itself and, hopefully, helping > others. I normally direct people to Advice to Aimless, Excited > Programmers (http://prog21.dadgum.com/80.html). For those who'd rather > read the rest of this email, the tl;dr version is: got scratch your > own itch, you might be building an itch-scratcher for others. > > The real question now becomes (at least for me): how do you know when > an itch is worth scratching? how do you know it's a shared itch? > > I've seen more experienced programmers immediately recognise what'd be > useful at large and what wouldn't (when I presented them with a couple > "itches" of my own.) Interestingly enough, my judgement didn't > necessarily coincide with theirs. > > Code to scratch your own itch? Sure, that's great. Code to scratch a > shared itch? Even better. But how do you know which is which? > > U > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
