What do you do to stay motivated while learning ?

Wow bro, I think its what you use to learn and your passion to want to learn. I have watch youtube video's on how to code but I went to HeadFirst CSS HTML and HeadFrist Javascritp and I see great benefits in online books to learn. You learn alot more. I also set up github and been plotting what I need to do for monoGames that I am building. with Web3. Also reading react and javascript game makiing as well. Its boring at times but every time I plot more of my Gaming Metaverse on Github the more I get excited. Good Luck and I hope you stay motivated.

Let me answer for both learning and working :)

An interesting post on being motivated while you learn.

• Learn what you actually Love and what other people need.
• Share your knowledge and the results of your work with other people.
• Make sure that you are benefiting (ideally including financial benefitting) from your learnings and work.

That shall help to prevent your burnout and depression. Trust me, I have been there (and it sucks).

Choosing such a topic is not an easy endeavor though. You might even discover that you Love something else than you thought before.

I enjoy learning a new programming language every year.

Sometimes I "cheat" be relearning a language I had already learned, especially if it has evolved. Like C++14 from when I had already learned C++98. Or Swift 5.5 when I had already learned Swift 1.0. Or ES6 when I had already learned ES5.

For me, I find it fun. Although, I have long since discovered, not every developer has the same sense of fun towards programming languages I do.

On my future list of languages I want to learn: Julia, Nim, Clojure, and Thin.

Recently (about six years ago), one of the languages I've learned I found to be really exciting. For me, it was a brand new paradigm to programming that I had never done before. Not that the paradigm was new — it had been around for decades — but I hadn't come across it before. The language being F♯, and the paradigm being functional programming. (And I can say the "functional programming" that I had learned from other non-FP languages was at best a poor imitation of it.)

1. Do not start learning just for sake of learning.
2. Try to find the most comfortable way of learning for you, rather than fastest. Because consistency in long term matters the most.

I browse through tech Twitter because everybody is always sharing programming related content. That alone is enough to motivate you to keep pushing harder and to learn new things.

I am also a content creator and technical writer so it is beneficial for me to keep a constant flow of content for side projects and freelance gigs. And let's not forget that the more you learn the better a developer you will be.

I try to set small easily attainable goals per concept and try to build something out of what I've learned. With programming you ease the learning curve if you practice the theory ASAP. It also helps to take breaks from the screen so that the mind can process what it has learned and build a solid contextual understanding.

I keep in mind the benefits of the upcoming job like being able to work remotely FROM all over the world FOR all over the world, salary benefits and I am building things on my own as much as possible. I found out that being stuck in the "tutorial hell" is highly demotivating so i started building even the most simple things!

P.S. I skipped the part where you learn what you love or love what you do because I assume this is what you are laready doing :) as most of us around here

It is movies like The Social Network for me to keep myself up when I'm at my lowest. Other time, I remember about the success that I'd be bestowed upon if keep the consistency.

For me: listening to music helps put me in my mood. Some days it varies whether its calm or energetic genre. Sport animes inspires me to do my best( and also to play sports because I love the strategy within them).Other times it can be just a friendly reminder from watching different youtubers that code. Last but not least a routined system(i.e. always checking dev.to whenever you get the time of your day to access your computer if you work).

Enjoy and appreciate the process

How to keep learning to program, over and over again, forever.

Ben Halpern ・ Sep 24 '17 ・ 2 min read

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