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. According to various theories, motivation may be rooted in a basic ...
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How important is common-sense in programming? [closed]
Are there any basic concepts one needs to apply in order to be a good programmer?
Like being punctual, ambitious or scrupulous?
What are the most important qualities one needs in order to do quality ...
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Corporate Framework: good or bad?
For a company that makes the same type of software over and over again, a custom MVP/MVC-like framework has been built. The obvious advantage is that it enables them to create their software faster, ...
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Losing a lot of motivation at work. Help? [closed]
For the longest time (about 5 years out of school now), I've been fairly motivated enough to go to work each day and do actual quality work. Lately I've been losing a ton of motivation. I'm starting ...
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How To Explain To My Dad What I have Programmed [closed]
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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 ...
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Motivation Problems, Middle School Programmer [closed]
I'm in middle school at the moment and have been programming for about a year and a half. I mostly work with Python and Ruby, and am currently learning Rails. I know, you can never learn enough, it ...
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Should I take on this very large project idea? [closed]
The last month I have had idea of a very large project to take as a software hobby/potential business project - simply because I saw some "vision" of a great tool if this would be done.
The idea ...
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How do you create interest in your projects? [closed]
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Ideas to get you programming mojo back?
Its almost 10 years for me working in Java based applications (mainly on Web). Sometimes I feel really bored of the regular ...
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Is it possible to speed- read code well?
Sometimes we have huge code listings to deal with, and I'm curious as to how the advanced, highly skilled programmers read code. And I'll say with an emphasis on debugging and finding issues.
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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?
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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Can passionate programmers have an Artistic Blockage? I do! [closed]
I think I do have what you call an "Artistic Blockage" as being a programmer, and a very good one too, most people say about me that I'm mostly genius when comes to programming and never seen ...
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Are passionate programmers more prone to burnout than others? [closed]
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Active steps to prevent a burn-out?
I am a software professional with around 6 years of experience. I was a developer initially but later moved onto consulting roles ...
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Where should I start on a large concurrent programming assignment?
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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Is it normal to want some appreciation and acknowledgement? [closed]
I work for a Multi-national product development organization. I work directly for the person who established the Indian wing of the organization.
I work incredibly hard and try to do the best ...
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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 ...
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Exploiting creativity with “free time”
Some companies have discovered, to their surprise and profit, that programmers are very creative people. I think of Google and Atlassian, for example, who allow regular (monthly, I believe) "free ...
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Need to ship software but don't feel like programming [closed]
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How do you motivate yourself to program (when you'd really rather be doing something else)?
Programming Warm-Ups
I'm a hobbyist. I'm in the process of writing a ...
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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? I need help!!
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How to keep up your motivation all day long [closed]
This might be a bit subjective and maybe that's a problem here, but I'm asking my question anyway :)
Also, I found similiar questions (but none, answered my question), so you don't need to remind me ...
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How to motivate someone(including myself) not to give up learning something? [closed]
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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 ...
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If I finish one project, should I wait until the next day to start another one or begin right away? [closed]
There are some days where I feel like I get a lot done. I've finished deploying my most recent project and cleared everything from my TODO list, and still have some time left in my day. I DO have a ...
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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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Psychological problems - overcoming shyness and boredom? [closed]
I have been programing for about 11 months. I've learned some things,and evaded some. I know some advanced things and I don't know some basic stuff. I easily get bored with programing when I program ...
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i am “scared” to learn a new language
I have be developing in c# for the last about the last 8 years.
I feel that i am quite experienced and knowledgeable in the whole .net platform.
I have got to the point where i want to start learning ...
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How to make Classic ASP interesting if you are stuck with it?
I used to work on a really small outsourcing company (4 programmers and the boss), then when the stress and the frequent long shifts made the situation unbearable I made the switch to a better paid ...
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Could an internal rep, voting and badges encourage good programming practices?
Just thinking out aloud - we programmers love all this voting/badges/rep stuff so could a scheme like this be introduced into a companies code review process to encourage better coding.
Something ...
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how to keep yourself motivated? [closed]
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How do you motivate yourself to program (when you'd really rather be doing something else)?
sometimes self -learning a particular language from books can make u feel ...
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What is the reason most people have predetermined fear of programming & how should skilled make them fearless?
When it comes to programming most people (non-programmers or sys_eng) react like you're calling them to publicly speak in front of 10^6 people. How would you as a programmer convince someone at least ...
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Motivation for a development team?
In two and half months I have successfully brought a team from the brink of doom to being a successful development team. The project is a using new .net technologies (MVC, EF), has new tools, and the ...
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How to give the sense of a team that is fragmented based on projects?
The software engineering team of which I am part of is approximately 7 strong located in adjacent cubicles. 3 of us work on the same project but the rest are working on their own on different ...
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Increase motivation in Our Project's Wiki with achievements?
We are currently running a mediawiki for our developers and most developers are not adding entries if they find something to document. Instead the mail it so a list containing all developers and most ...
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How can I stay focused and motivated on a project?
I'm working on starting my own software development business, but I've noticed that I have major issues getting projects out by their deadlines, and in general getting them out of the "almost-done" ...
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Why would I care about the asymptotic growth of the lower bound of the worst case time/space?
In mathematics, there are notations for asymptotic lower bounds, upper bounds, and tight (within-a-constant-factor) bounds. When describing the growth of functions in general, it makes sense that all ...
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Where do you find motivation when working for someone else?
This answer to one of my recent questions got me thinking about something that's been (mostly subconsciously until recently) troubling me throughout my programming career.
Basically: where do you ...
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How do you keep enthusiam up when working on an overwhelming project?
When I'm working on a complex / large programming project and I get overwhelmed or lost, I often lose motivation and just don't have the energy to really dig into the problem once again to figure it ...
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Is listing developer's full names in splash screen or about box still a widely spread and desirable practice?
Just like in the closing credits of movies, some software vendors list the full names of the team that worked on the piece of software you are using.
They are usually displayed in the splash screen ...
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Motivation and practical learning
I'm a newcomer to StackExchange and this seems a very good place to ask my question, that's been wandering in my head for a few months.
Currently I'm 22, I'm studying a BS of Computer Science in the ...
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How to fight absentmindedness
I didn't know where to ask this question, so I decided to try here.
Do you have any problems with loss of concentration, constant relaxation, etc.?
How do you solve this problem?
EDIT:
For ...
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Project In A Week / development bootcamp
Our team is thinking of doing a "Project In A Week" (bootcamp), and I'm interested to know if anyone else has experience of doing this or has any advice?
The idea behind it is to get away from the ...
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Feeling of Despair before programming?
When I have a programming assignment or some program that I have to start on I sometimes have this feeling of despair, I just do whatever to starting and then I just start feeling like crap, and that ...
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Active steps to prevent a burn-out?
What steps are you taking to actively prevent a burn-out? Is it really working?
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I'd like to learn how to do mobile development - which competitions can I join to help me learn?
I want to start learning mobile device development, but I am someone that gets much more motivated when there is some goal to reach. Because of that, I would like to join a competition.
I know about ...
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What do you do to remain productive when working on your own?
I find working in isolation, on a piece of code that won't be seen by anyone else for weeks, draining. I'm looking for ideas to try to keep myself productive and motivated.
What do you do to remain ...
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How to self Motivate technically to put my ideas into execution or just getting a job at MNC like google or microsoft
I mean,
How to self Motivate to get a job at google or create another google in future.
,as there is no mentor who can guide me on this topic, so asked it here:
I'm a Graduate in BE IT,but with ...
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What is the motivation that makes you to stick with current job? [closed]
There are lot of people who are still working in the same company for more than 10 years. What is the motivation that makes you to stick with current job ?
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How to build a team of people not working together? [closed]
I am in charge of a group of about 30 software development experts and architects. While these people are co-located in the companies organization chart, they do not really feel as a team. This is due ...
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Inspiring People
So I work with a few people that I feel are intelligent but don't seem to be working out well. After working with them for a while I have seen the flashes of brilliance but mostly I see a reliance on ...
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Motivating developers in a project perceived as dull?
As a manager, I can't always end up generating work that'd be cutting edge. Some of the projects do run on maintenance mode, and generate a healthy free cash flow for the company.
As a developer ...
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How to motivate team for knowledge sharing sessions
I work in a team with wide range of expertise and experience. I have been trying to introduce weekly knowledge sharing sessions. Sessions of 30-60 min length where everybody gets a chance to present ...
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I love programming but never get projects started
I read this question and the most voted answer and said to myself "Those things are what I want to do! But why the heck I'm not doing it?"
The problem here is that I can't get anything started. I ...
