Basically I parked my hobby to create games once I started studying computer science.

In my opinion, a big part of programming comes down to skill. Of course no need to learn about language features and patterns, but in the end you need the skill to build something solid as well.

And a big part of skill comes down to training. So I agree that it's a good idea to not always build the same thing in different variations.

I would also recommend reading the code by other developers. Since that may help you discover patterns or language features that you wouldn't otherwise have discovered yourself.

I tend to disagree on this a bit. I think it's important to have reusable code that is robust enough to fit different situations and is easy understandable.

I'd recommend 10 lines of code that are easy to follow than 1 line of code that is complete gibberish.

Because you might understand what it does, but that doesn't mean someone else who will look at your code later will. And he will lose time (=money) trying to figure out what it does.

Also looking at other people's code is also a way to learn how something should not be done. Sometimes the code is bad. It will work so it is in production, but it is still bad. And then you might adopt bad habits.

It's always important to always be critical when seeing other people's code.

a.k.a.

"Who the fuck wrote this piece of shit?" -- Oh it was me 6 years ago.

Anyone still programming?

One more thing that is important in serious programming, is the time facter. I'm so often without any time on my hands. What I noticed is that the longer I program on an end, the more problem cracking I become. It looks like when I am doing a test in school, nearby the finishing time of the test I write all the last answers down (consider the problems cracked at last). So what is important when I want to have enough time to program, is that I schedule large work blocks for myself that I can continue working in until every problem has been cracked at the end.

Otherwise, I just skip over many problems and never really seem to finish. Does anyone ever experience the same?

Sounds like complicated bug/ticket(s).

I work for myself and around here rarely anyone has requests. Consultation is forced for my clients, they only provide information when they can be bothered!

I don't earn much.

On the other hand I'm marketing Sheepdog Adventure iOS which has been painful and I need more capital to make it soar.

Working freelance, or designing on the side new games is great! I work for myself, yes, live alone and this is easy - working from home is very flexible!

Back to coding - I haven't coded much recently and I'm a bit rusty, even using C# Unity is breaking back into it. I am designing as I said so I have the right approach to code and nothing gets wasted.

Wish me luck!

look at this site, i wrote this 15 years ago over like a couple of weeks, but would probably take me months now lmao

at least it wouldn't be so full of hilarious bugs and security holes

I came to visit booleansoup today because I just got a spam "we've hacked your password" email with a password I'm pretty sure I've only used here :pp

I think it might be true that if you do more stuff in a day, you build up more stamina to do even more stuff. And if you do less, then you loose stamina to do stuff. And having a job can help you to build up discipline to do stuff.

It's the same with physical exercise. If you do nothing, it becomes harder to do something. If you have an appointment with someone at the fitness to follow an exercise plan, then that helps you to improve your physical condition. Over time then you have more physical stamina to do even more, in stead of even less.

I think it works out both physically and mentally.

Edit: but of course other conditions also matter. For example your age, and any limiting conditions that you may have physically or mentally. (also: I'm not an expert on this )

I only use this password here as well. I made the password in such a way that the owner of the site is reminded he should use 1-way encryption to store password hashes instead of the passwords themselves.

I did the same :oo
maybe our passwords are the same