As a Software Quality Assurance by day and Software Engineering student at night, I have my difficulties trying to improve my coding skills during the day. Having a job, studying, (beautiful) girlfriend, family and friends, I sometimes struggle when I want to take a moment for me to code. While reading one of the posts here at Dev.to I found someone that recommended to wake up 1 hour earlier in the morning to do what i wanted, and that really helped... until I had so much homework to do that... well, I wanted to sleep at least 5 hours.
For motivation purposes I've been thinking on building a birthday webpage for my girlfriend's birthday during the #100DaysOfCode challenge that I recently get to know about
So I came up with this question for you all!, What is the best moment for you to code (you can add any ritual you do for preparation <('-'<) (>'-')> ).
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Night after 22:00
Once I've gotten past the day's todo's, so like 11am. Is when I really get into the groove.
For me it's more from 5pm to 7-8pm
Night after the kids are in bed.
So 10 pm until...
That's some serious workout!
As soon as post 10PM hits I start the feel the energies flowing around me.
I then become the Super Saiyan 5 I always knew I was destined to be.
Hahaha love this comment!
8am, when office is empty
2-4pm
It depends on the day for me at work, but I typically find myself being productive from 2-4 and again from 5-7.
From my experience, it's all about finding when you get that inspiration or motivation to make progress and taking advantage of the times when you get in the groove. Once you're in it, try not to break from it until you start becoming mentally tired.
I used to do a split sleep schedule in college. 3-4 hrs, up for 2-3 and back to sleep for 3-4. That break in the middle was super productive.