Versatile software engineer with a background in .NET consulting and CMS development. Working on regaining my embedded development skills to get more involved with IoT opportunities.
At the same time, sometimes it's really nice just to do things for fun. Hack something together quickly in assembly for a microcontroller, decide to perform a task in a random language I know nothing about, abuse functional programming method chains, etc. I have honestly learned the most off some of those projects. One summer, I tried to reverse engineer a pager protocol off of patent applications. I knew nothing about DSP going into it, but it was a lot of fun learning it and realizing that sometimes the documentation is total BS!
self-taught FE dev && career change coach && online course creator && freeCodeCamp Top Contributor 2018 && Treehouse Success Story && community organizer && conference speaker
Totally. Breaking things for fun is a blast. I work with folks who are on their path to their first dev jobs though, and meandering isn't really conducive to their goals, so I'm sharing all the hacks I had to create/learn (esp having a non-verbal learning disability... learning, let alone learning to code, was a real bitch) to help them avoid the pitfalls!
Versatile software engineer with a background in .NET consulting and CMS development. Working on regaining my embedded development skills to get more involved with IoT opportunities.
I can definitely see how discipline would be crucial! I have ADD and I really struggle to learn anything that doesn't immediately seem fun/interesting to me. Sometimes I can use it to my advantage and specialize in things most people don't care too much for, and sometimes I get to be very grateful that I have generally dealt with kind and patient supervisors when my time management skills fly right out the window.
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At the same time, sometimes it's really nice just to do things for fun. Hack something together quickly in assembly for a microcontroller, decide to perform a task in a random language I know nothing about, abuse functional programming method chains, etc. I have honestly learned the most off some of those projects. One summer, I tried to reverse engineer a pager protocol off of patent applications. I knew nothing about DSP going into it, but it was a lot of fun learning it and realizing that sometimes the documentation is total BS!
Totally. Breaking things for fun is a blast. I work with folks who are on their path to their first dev jobs though, and meandering isn't really conducive to their goals, so I'm sharing all the hacks I had to create/learn (esp having a non-verbal learning disability... learning, let alone learning to code, was a real bitch) to help them avoid the pitfalls!
I can definitely see how discipline would be crucial! I have ADD and I really struggle to learn anything that doesn't immediately seem fun/interesting to me. Sometimes I can use it to my advantage and specialize in things most people don't care too much for, and sometimes I get to be very grateful that I have generally dealt with kind and patient supervisors when my time management skills fly right out the window.