Questions tagged [motivation]
Motivation is the driving force which help causes us to achieve goals. Motivation is said to be intrinsic or extrinsic. The term is generally used for humans but it can also be used to describe the causes for animal behavior as well.
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How do you keep your motivation and enthusiasm for a never ending project? [closed]
At the beginning of a project I tend to finish tasks quickly. However, after a while I start getting bored doing the same thing over and over again. It feels like I am stagnant. How do you keep ...
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Would forcing developers to fix at 3 AM the build they broke undermine motivation? [closed]
Breaking the build is a bad thing. Different teams take different measures to encourage their members to avoid breaking the build at all costs. Some measures are moderate. For example Joel Spolsky ...
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Getting coders to do code review [duplicate]
I am running a project where I pay developers to contribute to my semi open source project. My problem is that it is easy to hire developers, but it is very difficult to get anyone to do code ...
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Agile MVP (Most Valuable Player/Programmer)
Recently I've been involved in an agile project (using scrum) where management came up with the idea that the team would nominate a developer 'MVP' as well as a QA 'MVP' at the end of each sprint, ...
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Obsessed with finding most elegant solution [duplicate]
I find that at times I get obsessed with finding the most elegant solution to a problem or task. I'll spend hours trawling the internet/texts for ideas and discussion on the right way to solve a ...
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How to maintain Motivation and enthusiasm once you have figured out the solution needed [closed]
I am currently undertaking a software project on my own time. When I first got the project I put in many hours working out how to do the "tricky" parts of the solution. I spent many hours googling and ...
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How to get motivation and time to learn outside of work? [closed]
I work 40 hours as a programmer, and by the time I get home, the last thing I want to do is code some more. However, I feel like I am not getting better, and I do love software engineering. So how do ...
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How To Explain To My Dad What I have Programmed [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate: My Dad is impatient with the pace of my learning to program. What do I do? I am 14 and have been studying programming for 4 months now (3 months Python, 1 Month of Ruby). I ...
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Ideas to get you programming mojo back? [closed]
I've been a professional programmer for many many years (20 years) and now I've lost interest, at the moment I have trouble even knocking out a few 100 lines of simple stuff. It will take me 3-4 days ...
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How do you prevent getting stuck in "research-mode" on a big project you're unfamiliar with? [closed]
I'm in a situation where there's a big project that I need a lot of background know-how to accomplish. yet I'm not moving fast enough in the research/study phase - and seeing myself off-track ...
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Where should I start on a large concurrent programming assignment? [closed]
My task is to implement a distributed semaphore system (links to description) and an application for it. I will be using Java sockets, and it will use watermark arrays and priority queues (not sure ...
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Reasons for the build-technological fork between Java and UNIX/C/Fortran
When Java was developed, it's designers chose to discard an unusual amount of the conventional wisdom established in the UNIX and C oriented toolchains. For one (and in my view) the most major example,...
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How do you tackle really bizarre errors that keep you puzzled for more than 10 hours? [closed]
You know them, those errors that make NO sense. Where it seems like a gremlin just jumped deep inside your chips and messed up something. Do you take a walk, write stuff, call an uncle?
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How to motivate someone(including myself) not to give up learning something? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate: How can I motivate myself to start learning more? It's always interesting to learn something new - operating system, programming language, framework and so on. But the problem ...
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Lost Interest in Programming [closed]
I am a computer science student currently in my 2nd year of bachelors. My problem is pretty straight forward yet still so far has not been self-resolvable. It is simply is that I am tired of ...
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