Motivate Yourself to Become a Programmer or Find Another Job!

Motivate Yourself to Become a Programmer or Find Another Job!

If you still haven’t given up on becoming a good programmer and if you have already come to the understanding deep down that the next months and years will be tied every day to constant diligent work on mastering the secrets of programming, software development, computer science and software technologies, you may use an old technique for self-motivation and confident achievement of goals that can be found in many books and ancient teachings under one form or another. Keep imagining that you are programmers and that you have succeeded in becoming ones; you engage every day in programming; it is your profession; you can write all the software in the world (provided you have enough time); you can solve any problem that experienced programmers can solve. Keep thinking constantly and incessantly of your goal. Keep telling yourself, sometimes even out loud: "I want to become a good programmer and I have to work hard for this, I have to read a lot and learn a lot, I have to solve a lot of problems, every day, constantly and diligently". Put programming books everywhere around you, even stick a sign that says "I’ll become a good programmer" by your bed, so that you can see it every evening when you go to bed and every morning when you wake up. Program every day (no exceptions!), solve problems, have fun, learn new technologies, experiment; try writing a game, making a website, writing a compiler, a database and hundreds of other programs you may come up with original ideas for. In order to become good programmers, program every day and think about programming every day and keep imagining the future moment when you are an excellent programmer. You can, as long as you deeply believe that you can! Everybody can, as long as they believe that they can and pursue their goals constantly

without giving up. No-one would motivate you better than yourselves. Everything depends on you and this book is your first step.

A great way to really learn programming is to program every day for a year. If you program every day (without exception) and you do it for a long time (e.g. year or two) there is no way to not become a programmer. Anyone who practices programming every day for years will become good someday. This is valid for any other skill: if you want to learn it, just practice every day for a long time.