I agree. Getting appreciated at early stages is very important to stay motivated. Pushing your project isn't just a way to get stars but also a way to get feedback.
As for usefulness... who cares? The most enjoyable projects (for me at least - and I'm not the only one) are usually those that are essentially toys - you make them and play with them because it's fun and interesting.
Programming shouldn't be a chore, or something you feel you have to do, or motivate yourself to do. The learning and discovery should be driven by curiosity and real enjoyment, not the expectation of validation or reward
Programming shouldn't be a chore, or something you feel you have to do, or motivate yourself to do. The learning and discovery should be driven by curiosity and real enjoyment, not the expectation of validation or reward
I totally agree! I think most, if not all of us program like this. But your argument goes astray when you claim that "if you have fun programming, then you are just a validation seeker and shouldn't care about usefulness." This is just completely false! A significant portion of developers, myself included, love their work and help others (in fact, I worked on a OSS project non-stop for ~9 months without much external feedback just because I enjoyed it), but also want feedback and validation.
I encourage you to try to make a bigger project that isn't a toy to try it out to understand my perspective - if you haven't already.
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I agree. Getting appreciated at early stages is very important to stay motivated. Pushing your project isn't just a way to get stars but also a way to get feedback.
I think if you need stars as validation to stay motivated, you should probably be doing something else.
Feedback is useful, but that is an entirely separate thing to stars
As for usefulness... who cares? The most enjoyable projects (for me at least - and I'm not the only one) are usually those that are essentially toys - you make them and play with them because it's fun and interesting.
Programming shouldn't be a chore, or something you feel you have to do, or motivate yourself to do. The learning and discovery should be driven by curiosity and real enjoyment, not the expectation of validation or reward
I totally agree! I think most, if not all of us program like this. But your argument goes astray when you claim that "if you have fun programming, then you are just a validation seeker and shouldn't care about usefulness." This is just completely false! A significant portion of developers, myself included, love their work and help others (in fact, I worked on a OSS project non-stop for ~9 months without much external feedback just because I enjoyed it), but also want feedback and validation.
I encourage you to try to make a bigger project that isn't a toy to try it out to understand my perspective - if you haven't already.