Thread: What's ur answer?

I moved your post to the off-topic forum, since it's not really a technical question- it's still fun though!

But I disagree- sometimes it's best to get away from something (whether that's programming, playing the guitar, reading a textbook, whatever) for a while and come back to it. Practice makes perfect, but overdoing it can leave you sick of the thing you're trying to perfect!

Originally Posted by Sean4u

Java programmers are never destroyed: they're collected with the garbage.

lol.

I could do with a month long holiday.. I may have to take 4 weeks off as an experiment. I will let you know if I survive!!

Originally Posted by Melawe

Maybe the other way around? Give them a big project and little time.

Programmers often do that to themselves, which I think is one of the biggest killers of hobby programmers who could have gone on to be professional had they kept at it. People think "oh man this project would be awesome", not realizing that the project is non-trivial or made up of several smaller projects. Then they become discouraged when they don't have their goals accomplished in a couple weeks and give up on it altogether. That's why I always stress that people should work on much smaller projects until they have a more accurate idea of what a big project will take.