I am facing the exact same problem. I get it when people tell me to figure out a problem to solve and then learn to program but I have no idea about the kind of problems I like to solve. I work on Excel most of the time and am quite adept in it and I have also dabbled in Macros a bit. I am now learning C but I am not able to figure out how to use C to solve problems that I face in Excel. Maybe I have a long way to go before I start doing that but I am afraid I will give up much before that. It's already a week since I took a break :(
Ain't that the truth. I learned some Java and come C in college for classes/research and loved coding. It was just a really enjoyable experience overall. I picked up some Python along the way as well for various things.
And then I just kind of stagnated, because my totally not related to programming job takes up like 50 hours a week and when I do have time that I could be coding I spend it all trying to dream up something to code, so I've just kind of slowly forgotten everything. I need to just buckle down and learn how to make a simple app or something I think, to at least get me back into it.
Coding is hard when you don't have anything to code. Figure out something that you want to make a reality - then motivation will find you.
I am facing the exact same problem. I get it when people tell me to figure out a problem to solve and then learn to program but I have no idea about the kind of problems I like to solve. I work on Excel most of the time and am quite adept in it and I have also dabbled in Macros a bit. I am now learning C but I am not able to figure out how to use C to solve problems that I face in Excel. Maybe I have a long way to go before I start doing that but I am afraid I will give up much before that. It's already a week since I took a break :(
Ain't that the truth. I learned some Java and come C in college for classes/research and loved coding. It was just a really enjoyable experience overall. I picked up some Python along the way as well for various things.
And then I just kind of stagnated, because my totally not related to programming job takes up like 50 hours a week and when I do have time that I could be coding I spend it all trying to dream up something to code, so I've just kind of slowly forgotten everything. I need to just buckle down and learn how to make a simple app or something I think, to at least get me back into it.