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 really liked this article because I have done the same thing! I was more concerned with you knowing that I knew F# than actually using F# because I wanted to be seen as a functional programmer for whatever reason.
I just learn stuff that is fun. Sometimes my job necessitates learning new tech and I have no choice. But I can get very anxious thinking about what is the best way to use my study time to the point where I don't do anything because I caused an anxiety attack by going from picking a topic of focus to an existential crisis revolving around my programming skills.
The random stuff I have learned has helped me make relationships between things I already know. I find that is the best way to retain knowledge. By studying a wide range of subjects, I have many metaphors I can come back to.
I can definitely relate, both to the anxiety of "what to pick" and settling into learning things that are fun. One thing I try never to lose site of, even after decades of programming, is that the main, original appeal was "I can build a thing that didn't exist before," and that never stops being fun, whether that thing is some cool home automation, an open source project, or just a little script to automate something tedious.
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I really liked this article because I have done the same thing! I was more concerned with you knowing that I knew F# than actually using F# because I wanted to be seen as a functional programmer for whatever reason.
I just learn stuff that is fun. Sometimes my job necessitates learning new tech and I have no choice. But I can get very anxious thinking about what is the best way to use my study time to the point where I don't do anything because I caused an anxiety attack by going from picking a topic of focus to an existential crisis revolving around my programming skills.
The random stuff I have learned has helped me make relationships between things I already know. I find that is the best way to retain knowledge. By studying a wide range of subjects, I have many metaphors I can come back to.
I can definitely relate, both to the anxiety of "what to pick" and settling into learning things that are fun. One thing I try never to lose site of, even after decades of programming, is that the main, original appeal was "I can build a thing that didn't exist before," and that never stops being fun, whether that thing is some cool home automation, an open source project, or just a little script to automate something tedious.