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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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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Motivating yourself to actually write the code after you've designed something
Does it happen only to me or is this familiar to you too?
It's like this: You have to create something; a module, a feature, an entire application... whatever. It is something interesting that you ...
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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? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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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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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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? [closed]
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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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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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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If you were the manager of a team of 25 developers, how would you motivate them?
Imagine yourself hired by a new startup backed with few millions coming from venture capitalists.
Your mission: organize the development of the next killer app.
25 developers is too much to take ...
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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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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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I've had some free time at work during maintenance releases, but all I do is surf the Internet
I'm really having trouble with this, since it is the perfect opportunity to learn something new, begin a personal project... essentially do just about anything, but all I do is surf the Internet. I ...
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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 ...
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Keeping going, tough or not, finding things to keep motivated? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you motivate yourself to program (when you'd really rather be doing something else)?
I started a project that I knew was going to be tough and difficult, but ...
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Sharing programming fees with a fellow software developer
My question relates to how I should share the fees paid by clients to me and a fellow programmer, both of whom are freelancers.
I've thought of a few options, but I'm in a dilemma as to which one ...
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Managers X Motivation
As a programmer what do you think that is the thing that your manager does that mostly decreases your motivation?
My manager insists in blocking web content (this week was msdn content and Microsoft ...
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How to learn from open source
I see this problem quite often. I like a certain value proposition of an open-source project. I try out the basic tutorials. Great. It works! But if I move on to more complex problems, I spend hours ...
