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How do you stay focused for long term projects? (self.programming)

submitted 1 year ago by roxas2153 to c/[email protected]

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So, I have 2 months before I go to finish my last year in CS. Every time I sit down to start a project, I will work on it for a few days, and immediately stop working on it.

How do you stay focused for these long projects? Or what are some techniques that you follow to keep at it for longer stretches?

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[–] roxas2153 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This strategy makes a lot of sense. When you get to a section of the program though that you know you are going to dread, whether it be something with the UI or something in the backend, do you knock off sections of it while working on other parts? Or do you try to get it out of the way as quick as possible? These parts for me tend to be the ones that kill a project.

[–] PapaTorque 2 points 1 year ago

I'm lucky that for me it's just a hobby so if I get burnt out I can take a break. I don't have deadlines to meet or anything like that. So what I do is usually just quit working on it until I get interested again or the state its in bugs me enough to fix it.

Again I'm not exactly a programmer though and if you do it for a living I suspect it's like anything else where you just suck it up and try to get through it until you get to go home.