Questions tagged [motivation]
Motivation is the driving force which help causes us to achieve goals. Motivation is said to be intrinsic or extrinsic. The term is generally used for humans but it can also be used to describe the causes for animal behavior as well.
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How do you keep your motivation and enthusiasm for a never ending project? [closed]
At the beginning of a project I tend to finish tasks quickly. However, after a while I start getting bored doing the same thing over and over again. It feels like I am stagnant.
How do you keep ...
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Would forcing developers to fix at 3 AM the build they broke undermine motivation? [closed]
Breaking the build is a bad thing. Different teams take different measures to encourage their members to avoid breaking the build at all costs.
Some measures are moderate. For example Joel Spolsky ...
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Getting coders to do code review [duplicate]
I am running a project where I pay developers to contribute to my semi open source project. My problem is that it is easy to hire developers, but it is very difficult to get anyone to do code ...
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Agile MVP (Most Valuable Player/Programmer)
Recently I've been involved in an agile project (using scrum) where management came up with the idea that the team would nominate a developer 'MVP' as well as a QA 'MVP' at the end of each sprint, ...
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Obsessed with finding most elegant solution [duplicate]
I find that at times I get obsessed with finding the most elegant solution to a problem or task.
I'll spend hours trawling the internet/texts for ideas and discussion on the right way to solve a ...
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How to maintain Motivation and enthusiasm once you have figured out the solution needed [closed]
I am currently undertaking a software project on my own time. When I first got the project I put in many hours working out how to do the "tricky" parts of the solution. I spent many hours googling and ...
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How to get motivation and time to learn outside of work? [closed]
I work 40 hours as a programmer, and by the time I get home, the last thing I want to do is code some more. However, I feel like I am not getting better, and I do love software engineering. So how do ...
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How To Explain To My Dad What I have Programmed [duplicate]
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My Dad is impatient with the pace of my learning to program. What do I do?
I am 14 and have been studying programming for 4 months now (3 months Python, 1 Month of Ruby). I ...
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Ideas to get you programming mojo back? [closed]
I've been a professional programmer for many many years (20 years) and now I've lost interest, at the moment I have trouble even knocking out a few 100 lines of simple stuff. It will take me 3-4 days ...
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How do you prevent getting stuck in "research-mode" on a big project you're unfamiliar with? [closed]
I'm in a situation where there's a big project that I need a lot of background know-how to accomplish. yet I'm not moving fast enough in the research/study phase - and seeing myself off-track ...
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Where should I start on a large concurrent programming assignment? [closed]
My task is to implement a distributed semaphore system (links to description) and an application for it. I will be using Java sockets, and it will use watermark arrays and priority queues (not sure ...
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Reasons for the build-technological fork between Java and UNIX/C/Fortran
When Java was developed, it's designers chose to discard an unusual amount of the conventional wisdom established in the UNIX and C oriented toolchains. For one (and in my view) the most major example,...
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How do you tackle really bizarre errors that keep you puzzled for more than 10 hours? [closed]
You know them, those errors that make NO sense. Where it seems like a gremlin just jumped deep inside your chips and messed up something. Do you take a walk, write stuff, call an uncle?
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How to motivate someone(including myself) not to give up learning something? [duplicate]
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How can I motivate myself to start learning more?
It's always interesting to learn something new - operating system, programming language, framework and so on. But the problem ...
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Lost Interest in Programming [closed]
I am a computer science student currently in my 2nd year of bachelors. My problem is pretty straight forward yet still so far has not been self-resolvable. It is simply is that I am tired of ...
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i am "scared" to learn a new language
I have be developing in c# for the last about the last 8 years.
I feel that i am quite experienced and knowledgeable in the whole .net platform.
I have got to the point where i want to start learning ...
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How to make Classic ASP interesting if you are stuck with it? [closed]
I used to work on a really small outsourcing company (4 programmers and the boss), then when the stress and the frequent long shifts made the situation unbearable I made the switch to a better paid ...
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Could an internal rep, voting and badges encourage good programming practices?
Just thinking out aloud - we programmers love all this voting/badges/rep stuff so could a scheme like this be introduced into a companies code review process to encourage better coding.
Something ...
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Why would I care about the asymptotic growth of the lower bound of the worst case time/space?
In mathematics, there are notations for asymptotic lower bounds, upper bounds, and tight (within-a-constant-factor) bounds. When describing the growth of functions in general, it makes sense that all ...
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Is listing developer's full names in splash screen or about box still a widely spread and desirable practice?
Just like in the closing credits of movies, some software vendors list the full names of the team that worked on the piece of software you are using.
They are usually displayed in the splash screen (...
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Project In A Week / development bootcamp [closed]
Our team is thinking of doing a "Project In A Week" (bootcamp), and I'm interested to know if anyone else has experience of doing this or has any advice?
The idea behind it is to get away from the ...
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What is the motivation that makes you to stick with current job? [closed]
There are lot of people who are still working in the same company for more than 10 years. What is the motivation that makes you to stick with current job ?
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How to build a team of people not working together? [closed]
I am in charge of a group of about 30 software development experts and architects. While these people are co-located in the companies organization chart, they do not really feel as a team. This is due ...
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Motivating developers in a project perceived as dull?
As a manager, I can't always end up generating work that'd be cutting edge. Some of the projects do run on maintenance mode, and generate a healthy free cash flow for the company.
As a developer ...
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How to motivate team for knowledge sharing sessions
I work in a team with wide range of expertise and experience. I have been trying to introduce weekly knowledge sharing sessions. Sessions of 30-60 min length where everybody gets a chance to present ...
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Sharing programming fees with a fellow software developer
My question relates to how I should share the fees paid by clients to me and a fellow programmer, both of whom are freelancers.
I've thought of a few options, but I'm in a dilemma as to which one ...
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Motivation for programming in a specific language [closed]
I'm 21 and didn't go to University and hence completely self-taught from tutorials, screencasts, books etc, but when it came to the decision of what languages to specifically learn, I thought, what's ...
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How do you stay motivated for hobby projects? [closed]
I started seriously programming as a hobbiest, student and then intern about 4 years ago and I've always done small projects on the side as a learning exercise. Schools over now though, and I spend ...
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If you were the manager of a team of 25 developers, how would you motivate them? [closed]
Imagine yourself hired by a new startup backed with few millions coming from venture capitalists.
Your mission: organize the development of the next killer app.
25 developers is too much to take ...
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How can I motivate myself to start learning more? [closed]
I've been interested in programming for a while now, and have been slowly, slowly, slowly working on things over the years. However, I don't feel like I've learned much.
I've only really stuck with ...
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Managers X Motivation
As a programmer what do you think that is the thing that your manager does that mostly decreases your motivation?
My manager insists in blocking web content (this week was msdn content and Microsoft ...
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How to learn from open source
I see this problem quite often. I like a certain value proposition of an open-source project. I try out the basic tutorials. Great. It works! But if I move on to more complex problems, I spend hours ...
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How to enter flow experience for SW development? [closed]
What are your strategies to improve the flow experience when doing work?
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