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Like any software development process I think every programmer goes through phases in their. It’s been two years since I have been programming professional. And the beginning of my career I tend to focus on learning new things, trying to come with creative ways to solve problem and during the weekend I used to study for 3-4 hours a days. But now gradually things have changed drastically. All of care is getting the job done nothing else. I feel all I am doing is recycling and modifying the old codes I wrote. Is this normal? If this is a phase that I am going through that what would be my next phase? Do you guys feel so frustrated while programming that you just want to change your profession.
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Like any software development process I think every programmer goes through phases in their. It’s been two years since I have been programming professional. And the beginning of my career I tend to focus on learning new things, trying to come with creative ways to solve problem and during the weekend I used to study for 3-4 hours a days. But now gradually things have changed drastically. All of care is getting the job done nothing else. I feel all I am doing is recycling and modifying the old codes I wrote. Is this normal? If this is a phase that I am going through that what would be my next phase? Do you guys feel so frustrated while programming that you just want to change your profession.
What lead you to/Why did you become a software developer?
--- Elle A Du Shell
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Like any software development process I think every programmer goes through phases in their. It’s been two years since I have been programming professional. And the beginning of my career I tend to focus on learning new things, trying to come with creative ways to solve problem and during the weekend I used to study for 3-4 hours a days. But now gradually things have changed drastically. All of care is getting the job done nothing else. I feel all I am doing is recycling and modifying the old codes I wrote. Is this normal? If this is a phase that I am going through that what would be my next phase? Do you guys feel so frustrated while programming that you just want to change your profession.
If I had my time again I would train to be a plumber. I'd be retired by now instead of slogging away bug fixing and doing the same work for weeks/months.
I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)
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What lead you to/Why did you become a software developer?
--- Elle A Du Shell
-+- Beth Mackenzie -+- wrote:
What lead you to/Why did you become a software developer?
i became programmer because i like creating new things and see people using the thing that i had created. Also at first i wasnot good at it so programming was a challenge to me and i love challenges.
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If I had my time again I would train to be a plumber. I'd be retired by now instead of slogging away bug fixing and doing the same work for weeks/months.
I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)
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Like any software development process I think every programmer goes through phases in their. It’s been two years since I have been programming professional. And the beginning of my career I tend to focus on learning new things, trying to come with creative ways to solve problem and during the weekend I used to study for 3-4 hours a days. But now gradually things have changed drastically. All of care is getting the job done nothing else. I feel all I am doing is recycling and modifying the old codes I wrote. Is this normal? If this is a phase that I am going through that what would be my next phase? Do you guys feel so frustrated while programming that you just want to change your profession.
anj1983 wrote:
Do you guys feel so frustrated while programming that you just want to change your profession.
Nope. Developing software can be frustrating at times. But most of that frustration, for me, comes mainly from two sources. (1) Office politics and (2) badly behaved tools [Visual Source Safe, for example]
anj1983 wrote:
I feel all I am doing is recycling and modifying the old codes I wrote
At least it is your code and not someone else's. Hopefully as you are modifying it you are making it better rather than hacking it. If you hack it you will only increase your frustration.
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Like any software development process I think every programmer goes through phases in their. It’s been two years since I have been programming professional. And the beginning of my career I tend to focus on learning new things, trying to come with creative ways to solve problem and during the weekend I used to study for 3-4 hours a days. But now gradually things have changed drastically. All of care is getting the job done nothing else. I feel all I am doing is recycling and modifying the old codes I wrote. Is this normal? If this is a phase that I am going through that what would be my next phase? Do you guys feel so frustrated while programming that you just want to change your profession.
I've felt like that at times in the past 9 years but then new technology comes along, new projects and challenges, even a new job if that's what it takes and I find myself motivated to learn and try new things again. If you've only been in this game 2 years and you already know everything there is to know about C++, MFC, STL, ATL, WTL, ISAPI, XML, COM, DCOM, Services, Database technology etc and have explored the outer limits of templates with Jaarko Jaarvi & co, finished with DirectX, coded your own C Library from scratch, knocked up a few specialist embedded operating systems and are still bored then may I humbly suggest that you switch to a more challenging line of work like brain surgery, protein folding or solving the Middle East's political problems ;)
Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.
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-+- Beth Mackenzie -+- wrote:
What lead you to/Why did you become a software developer?
i became programmer because i like creating new things and see people using the thing that i had created. Also at first i wasnot good at it so programming was a challenge to me and i love challenges.
Perhaps going to the heart of the matter is looking over your past posts of how you feel about being a developer (and wishing to be an artist). At 24, i feel as though you've already resigned yourself to a future where you will not be happy (in another post on CP, you've said "I hate my job". Have you thought about altering your attitude and using your job to support yourself becoming the artist you'd like to be. Whatever job you do, S/Dev is considerably better paid, but this could be gateway to person that you'd to be... What do you think?
--- Elle A Du Shell
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Like any software development process I think every programmer goes through phases in their. It’s been two years since I have been programming professional. And the beginning of my career I tend to focus on learning new things, trying to come with creative ways to solve problem and during the weekend I used to study for 3-4 hours a days. But now gradually things have changed drastically. All of care is getting the job done nothing else. I feel all I am doing is recycling and modifying the old codes I wrote. Is this normal? If this is a phase that I am going through that what would be my next phase? Do you guys feel so frustrated while programming that you just want to change your profession.
anj1983 wrote:
Do you guys feel so frustrated while programming that you just want to change your profession.
I get frustrated by a lot of things related to programming that Colin mentioned (crappy tools, office politics, hmm, Office itself), but not by programming itself. Marc
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Baconbutty wrote:
If I had my time again I would train to be a plumber.
I would became a artist and would have spend all days outside in the sun painting rather than indoors sitting infront my laptop.
I'll second that.
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Like any software development process I think every programmer goes through phases in their. It’s been two years since I have been programming professional. And the beginning of my career I tend to focus on learning new things, trying to come with creative ways to solve problem and during the weekend I used to study for 3-4 hours a days. But now gradually things have changed drastically. All of care is getting the job done nothing else. I feel all I am doing is recycling and modifying the old codes I wrote. Is this normal? If this is a phase that I am going through that what would be my next phase? Do you guys feel so frustrated while programming that you just want to change your profession.
You are coming to a sad realization. Cancel or allow?
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Like any software development process I think every programmer goes through phases in their. It’s been two years since I have been programming professional. And the beginning of my career I tend to focus on learning new things, trying to come with creative ways to solve problem and during the weekend I used to study for 3-4 hours a days. But now gradually things have changed drastically. All of care is getting the job done nothing else. I feel all I am doing is recycling and modifying the old codes I wrote. Is this normal? If this is a phase that I am going through that what would be my next phase? Do you guys feel so frustrated while programming that you just want to change your profession.
anj1983 wrote:
Do you guys feel so frustrated while programming that you just want to change your profession.
I rarely feel frustrated while writing code, in fact it's quite the opposite, writing code for me is a way to escape the bs of the world around me. I've been doing this for 10 years now and to this day I still try and find better, more efficient ways to solve problems. If I happen to run across a task I did say 2 years ago, which is rare where I work, then I will look at how I did it 2 years ago and do my best to improve on that.
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