I think you found they two week points in my post, just to clarify, I did modify the code I found, and I did write my own code. I just put that as a way to show that I went out, and learned in a naïve way, searching Google for almost everything I needed to know to do something.
Also, gamebrave was changed many times, and I improved it as much as I could, the layout changed many times as I learned more effective ways to write code. I just stopped working on it at one point because I wasn't getting anything out of improving the website, I wanted to move on, and try a new project. It wasn't going to ever be a really business, it was just a way for me to learn how to write web code.
Also, this is my early story, and was fed mainly by curiosity, and not a formal education plan. Based on a lot of advice I have received, I will be reading books on programming topics that interest me.
Absolutely understand. I've been close to there. Definitely read books, and take advantage of the fact you can get a 100% free CS education from MIT in the comfort of your home. I hope I didn't come across too abrasive, I've just seen a lot of symptoms lately in your generation of people who want to show up to work and get paid for stealing time from the rest of the team instead of doing some self-learning. Your learning track mirrors mine too much to let you fall into this trap. Learn how to learn.
I will suggest the following advice; take it with whatever worth you might... work on improving Gamebrave. A LOT of developers I hire and work with love to constantly move to something new, something that will challenge them in a new way, allow them to use their new abilities, new technologies, etc. Resist this desire, and you will find success. Those developers come and go, and I certainly spent my own time doing this. But starting new is easy. It's not difficult to get through the hello world phase and get something started. What's truly difficult is pushing something past that plateau feeling into something even better or more effective.
And it's that skill (of resisting newness) that will get you hired full time, and indeed what I look for. If someone says they get passionate about debugging or refactoring, it's worth a thousand people who like starting from scratch. So go and open up your old code, improve it, maybe figure out how to turn that sucker into some passive income, figure out a way to get people there. Trust me, learning this Zen of development will be much better for your future career (assuming you want to do this full time). There's a reason that old OS/2 and mainframe people get jobs worth twice what their peers get for slinging javascript.
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I think you found they two week points in my post, just to clarify, I did modify the code I found, and I did write my own code. I just put that as a way to show that I went out, and learned in a naïve way, searching Google for almost everything I needed to know to do something.
Also, gamebrave was changed many times, and I improved it as much as I could, the layout changed many times as I learned more effective ways to write code. I just stopped working on it at one point because I wasn't getting anything out of improving the website, I wanted to move on, and try a new project. It wasn't going to ever be a really business, it was just a way for me to learn how to write web code.
Also, this is my early story, and was fed mainly by curiosity, and not a formal education plan. Based on a lot of advice I have received, I will be reading books on programming topics that interest me.
Absolutely understand. I've been close to there. Definitely read books, and take advantage of the fact you can get a 100% free CS education from MIT in the comfort of your home. I hope I didn't come across too abrasive, I've just seen a lot of symptoms lately in your generation of people who want to show up to work and get paid for stealing time from the rest of the team instead of doing some self-learning. Your learning track mirrors mine too much to let you fall into this trap. Learn how to learn.
I will suggest the following advice; take it with whatever worth you might... work on improving Gamebrave. A LOT of developers I hire and work with love to constantly move to something new, something that will challenge them in a new way, allow them to use their new abilities, new technologies, etc. Resist this desire, and you will find success. Those developers come and go, and I certainly spent my own time doing this. But starting new is easy. It's not difficult to get through the hello world phase and get something started. What's truly difficult is pushing something past that plateau feeling into something even better or more effective.
And it's that skill (of resisting newness) that will get you hired full time, and indeed what I look for. If someone says they get passionate about debugging or refactoring, it's worth a thousand people who like starting from scratch. So go and open up your old code, improve it, maybe figure out how to turn that sucker into some passive income, figure out a way to get people there. Trust me, learning this Zen of development will be much better for your future career (assuming you want to do this full time). There's a reason that old OS/2 and mainframe people get jobs worth twice what their peers get for slinging javascript.