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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<title>Alex Mendiola: Coder</title>
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<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="/Frustration Station: All aboard!.html">Frustration Station</a></h1>
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<abbr class="published" title="2019-07-11T00:00:00-04:00">
Published: Thu 11 July 2019
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Updated: Thu 11 July 2019
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By <a class="url fn" href="/author/alex-mendiola.html">Alex Mendiola</a>
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<p>tags: <a href="/tag/coding.html">Coding</a> <a href="/tag/frustration.html">Frustration</a> </p>
</footer><!-- /.post-info --><p>It's widely publicized that coding is frustrating. This phenomenon I have experienced since I began coding in high school. (Text adventures in BASIC. See: <a href="http://zorkonline.net/" target="_blank">Zork</a>) However, this week I flew by frustration and directly to despondancy, depression, and dispair. </p>
<p>Essentially, I don't know what I don't know. This is the default state of a software developer. Technologies change, evolve, and die. So, there is a perpetual blank spot in the knowledge of even the most seasoned developer. I've heard that the path to learning programming usually begins with a lot of "I don't know what this means" and "Why doesn't this work?" and "This doesn't make sense." until, one mystical day, you 'get it'. I have yet to reach that day. This week I struggled to complete a simple game I've been working on for the past couple of months - a variation of Rock, Paper, Scissors popularized by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Cooper" targe="_blank">Sheldon Cooper</a> in <a href="https://www.cbs.com/shows/big_bang_theory/" target="_blank">The Big Bang Theory</a>. The regular version with only 3 options is fairly straightforward to program. An <code>python
if elif else</code> and you're basically done. However, with the addition of the two remaining options, 'Lizard' and 'Spock', it becomes far more difficult to elegantly code. </p>
<p>Now, I know veteran (or even non-newbie) coders might scoff at that statement. But, please take it easy on this particular n00b's current perspective. I think part of the issue this week was that I have high expectations for my progress. I'm a smart guy. I've got a Master's degree. I'm tech savvy. My ego got the better of me. In addition, I have a tight timeline for myself. I have until the beginning of September or I'll have to decrease my studies significantly. This decrease in activity will undoubtedly slow my progress and I really don't want that.</p>
<p>There is one definite effect of these expectations and my crippling frustration this week: I did not learn as much as I could in the time that I had. This is ironic because the very source of my frustration was the cause of its extension. Negative thinking is recursive and it's difficult to break that particular loop. It's also infectious. I found my frustration with coding permeate other areas of my life. I was short with family. I spent the majority of my time stewing. I was irritable to the extreme. Frankly, life's just too short for that sort of behavior. </p>
<p>Moving forward, I have no idea how I will react to further frustration. I am certain I will continue to be frustrated by this particular vocation. However, I can endeavor to keep my reaction to it reasonable and reasonably short-lived. The proof is in the results of today's work. I was able to solve the issues with my game that had plagued me all week. How did I achieve this? I Googled. I mulled. I re-read my resources. I looked at similar code. Eventually, I was able to alter my code based on another's previous work so that the game functions exactly as I intended. In retrospect, all that fuss was merely a waste of my precious time. In the future, I would be well-advised to remember that. To all those out there who are also on this journey: be so advised.</p> </article>
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<p>In <a href="/category/posts.html">Posts</a>.</p>
<p>tags: <a href="/tag/coding.html">Coding</a> </p>
</footer><!-- /.post-info --> <p>Wherein I write about how I'm discovering ways to make my code more efficient.</p>
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By <a class="url fn" href="/author/alex-mendiola.html">Alex Mendiola</a>
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<p>In <a href="/category/posts.html">Posts</a>.</p>
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</footer><!-- /.post-info --> <p>Wherein I discover a new solution... that is also not the correct one.</p>
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<p>tags: <a href="/tag/coding.html">Coding</a> <a href="/tag/struggles.html">Struggles</a> </p>
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By <a class="url fn" href="/author/alex-mendiola.html">Alex Mendiola</a>
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<p>In <a href="/category/intro.html">Intro</a>.</p>
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