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Finishing programming projects (discuss.online)

submitted 1 year ago by Krzak@discuss.online to c/adhd@lemmy.world

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How do I trick my brain into completing a project? I'm making an app that shows which voice actor plays a character in the movie and what other movies they act in. It's useful for me personally but I feel like I'm making something that's been done numerous times over and I lost the momentum because I'm on vacation with my family now. I ran into some problems with the project too and getting help takes a ton of time so it's disrupting the rythm too. I really have to put at least 2-3 projects like this for a portfolio;_;

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[–] Nemo@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"No interesting project is ever finished."

Got that one from my CS professors and it's always rung true. So I just plan to get interrupted and try to make it easy to jump back in after I lose focus for a while. And the key to that is documentation.

I can go back to a project I left unfinished weeks or months ago and say, okay, here's where I left off and here's all the information I need about these functions and modules.

[–] Krzak@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does the "not-ending" apply to really small things though? I think mine can have an end, it's more of a demonstration than a serious thing.

[–] Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Am a software developer, and in my experience we always find things that could be done different, spend hours tracking down the source of some fringe bug, or think of new features a product could benefit from, especially if we enjoy working on it.

Things might be considered done, but i never was in a situation where one could not think of more things that could be done.