My Programming Sucks

Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal

Yeah, it’s kinda depressing. I’ve come to realize, my programming skills has gotten rusty. Really, really rusty.

Sure enough, most of my friends will say “dai lou, if you not dim, we die lor”. But really, I feel that I’m getting so bad at it. I took me ages to figure out how to convert mm/dd/yyyy format to dd/mm/yyyy in JavaScript. I realize I can’t work under stress, and can only program quickly with problems I faced before. When I face something new, I’m stuck.

Worse of all, I can’t find the passion that once fueled me to practice programming. It’s just not there. I wrote less than 100 lines of code today. Yeah, but some programming progress can’t be measured by lines of code (LOC), but I just feel that my progress is pretty depressing.

Is programming really that suitable for me after all? Heck, I’m developing interest in macroeconomics. Will I go into a non-technical industry upon graduating? Only time can tell..

Permalink | June 10th, 2007

2 Responses to “My Programming Sucks”

  1. Jeffrey04 Says:
    June 15th, 2007 at 6:31 pm

    have u ever think of what you will be after u graduate?
    i have been thinking whether i am going to work in IT field after graduating from the coll…. i find myself cursing the code written by somebody else during my internship and maintaining other ppl’s code is not fun at all……

  2. Jonathan Ng Says:
    June 16th, 2007 at 11:00 am

    Yeah… reading through other ppl’s code, especially those that don’t have a single line of comment sucks.. but then again, it also depends on the organization’s policies of enforcing documentation..

    But speaking of documentation, documentation can be a pain sometimes.. especially writting test plans that are meant for end users.. gawd..

    For me, I will aim for fields that are half on business and technical.. stuff like product evangelism etc. definitely not 100% programming jobs for me..

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