The moments make me realize that I’m a dissolved programmer
What motivates me to regain my energy and attention whenever I feel low while coding is recalling the moments when I found myself completely dissolved in programming.
It’s well said that the solution to a problem lies in the problem itself. I found a therapy to keep myself motivated within the same source responsible to throttle and anguish me.
At some point everyone finds themselves struggling to understand a concept while learning, especially if you’re new to it or while trying to implement a new feature that breaks several other sections of the application. It causes frustration, lets down the confidence level, and sufficient to raise the intensity of demotivation. These are the situation where you may feel like maybe you shouldn’t program because you’re not a programming kind of person or maybe you should give up and start something fresh but somehow you also know, it’s not an ultimate solution and ultimately you have to deal with the situation. This is high time to find some sort of motivation to boost your confidence level and refresh yourself.
Recently I found what helps me to uplift my confidence level to some extent is to think about the moments when I found myself submerged in the programming, the challenging problem I recently solved, and rethink it as a fresh one; definitely, it seems a piece of piss and to think about other such situation where I found myself as a confident, dedicated and a genuine programmer.
Here I’m going to talk about some of the unnoticed moments which I spotted and I believe every programmer has experienced while writing a fragment of a feature or hunting a bug that is enough to bring a smile on your face and to remind you about your zeal to deal with the challenge, eagerness to learn and make you realize about the extent you dissolved in programming.
The Second Sip:
Working on a feature which you’re about to finish; offered your favorite and preferred cafe latte, after taking the first sip you put it on the table for a while and continued working on your awesome project, the next moment when you took the second sip you found it turned cold.
If you ever encountered such moments, trust me you were fully immersed in programming and your passion won over your preference.
I encounter similar moments few times and would like to advise you not to forget to put the coaster over the cup if you found your tea or coffee too hot to drink and want to keep it aside on the table for a minute to become tepid while coding.
The Silent Song:
If you have a habit of listening to music while coding, this section is for you. While coding if certain logic requires more attention and you pause the player to concentrate on the code; a few hours later you realize that still, you’re having your earpiece on your ears and the player is still paused while you already finished with the specific logic a way ago for which you paused the player.
I frequently found myself wearing the muted earphones for hours and listening to the silent song simply because sometimes I found myself so dissolved in my code that I forget to remove them after a conversation with my team or forget to hit the play button of my music player.
The Dream Logic:
Have you ever come across a situation where you struggled a lot to find a solution to a challenge or spend the whole day debugging your application but unfortunately didn’t succeed to find the right solution to it. At the end of the day, you finally went to sleep. The next day you started with working around the logic you dreamed of last night and it worked.
It’s common among beginner philomaths. All the logic starts hitting your brain when you switch off the lights and go to bed. I know you are passionate to start your system then and there to try out some of them but having a good amount of sleep is also necessary. Whenever I encounter such a situation I try to take note of the key points on my phone for the next day and would also suggest you do so.
There are a bunch of such moments to make you realize your dedication, curiosity, and passion for coding, specifically if you are a beginner and feeling low at some point in time, recall the moments when you found yourself dissolved in coding, motivate yourself, take a refreshment break, and you are ready to challenge the challenge.
Here I shared a few unnoticed moments of my life and believe you also have yours. Feel free to share the unnoticed activities you noticed while writing code.
