Date: 2009-07-30 11:39:16 Created: 2009-07-30 07:15:11
The purpose of this little experiement is to make myself write a little bit of code every day, no matter what it is, and see where it leads me. This is aside of anything I do at work. The whole theory is as simple as can be: people who are skilled in any craft tend to practise their craft a lot and very regularly, and they do not need to create something unique every time in order to improve. A piano player does not care if the piece she is playing has been played a million times by other people (or who created it in the first place), because she enjoys playing it and develops her own skills and her own interpretation in doing so. The same thing ought to apply to coding, yet I have almost no such habits. I rarely write code without a very specific target in mind, and I tend to re-use the solutions and libraries of others whenever possible. This is of course good from re-use, stability and code quality standpoints, but writing two lines to call someone elses' solution hardly improves my own coding skills in an area.
Perhaps I will just type and run example code. Perhaps I will not even write things which compile. But simply activating the coding areas of my brain more often has to be a good thing.
The experiment begins july 30th, 2009 and to start off I plan to run it until next Sunday, August 9th.
Take a look at the sub pages of this page to see how I am doing reaching my goals.