Beyond motivation, it's not likely just reading a flat text will be retained meaningfully without creative problem solving. Personal projects are the best route in my opinion. I like reading technical books but I figure I retain a small percentage of the specifics. On May 4, 2016 6:32 AM, "mviljamaa" <mvilja...@kapsi.fi> wrote:
> I tend to not have the patience to go through programming tutorials, > because I think they're boring. I sometimes use them as reference to see or > recall how something is done, but I don't step through them in order to > learn a language. > > Rather, I write programs to learn programming and languages. It's easier > if you have some background in programming in some other language. > > I merely pick personal projects that interest me and then try to develop > them to finish. I seek resources that help me do what I need to. > > I think it's easier to be motivated in actual projects that interest you, > rather than programming assignments. > > -Matti > > Cai Gengyang kirjoitti 2016-05-03 14:20: > >> So I have completed up to CodeAcademy's Python Unit 2 , now moving on >> to Unit3 : Conditionals and Control Flow. >> >> But I feel my motivation wavering , at times I get stuck and >> frustrated when trying to learn a new programming language ? >> >> This might not be a technical question per say, but it is a Python >> programming related one. How do you motivate a person (either yourself >> or your child) to become more interested in programming and stick with >> it ? Is determination in learning (especially in a tough field like >> software) partly genetic ? >> >> Related , This is a very well written essay on determination by Paul >> Graham >> ---------------------------------------- >> http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html >> >> Gengyang >> > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
