RE: Can I get some help with school
December 18, 2015 at 1:01 am
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2015 at 1:07 am by CapnAwesome.)
(December 18, 2015 at 12:59 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Heat, the only thing I can think of that might work to make tedious tasks more interesting is to:
1) Find a reward system that works for you. If it's candy, games, AF.org time, whatever. You don't get to do what you want to do until homework is done.
2) Figure out what you want to do in life. You're super young to make hard plans, but set goals. Want to be a computer programmer? Better be shit hot at math and logic. Better get into a halfway decent school and work your ass off to make that happen. Getting excited about your future makes working hard to get there that much easier.
If you're looking for a trick to make homework exciting, there just isn't one. If you're not enamored with the subject matter, it's just going to be busywork and practice. But man, if that practice isn't worth it when you get to college and have 17 credit hours of coursework plus a job and a penchant for partying on the weekend. You're going to need those skills. If you don't have them, college will be just like high school. And that, my friend, would be sad.
That's terrible advice to be a programmer. Nobody in the programming world cares what school you went to. They only care how well you can program. My younger brother is a programmer, he didn't go to college except for maybe a quarter and has never taken a computer science class in his life. It would have been silly for him to take one in most colleges. Nobody that he's worked for has ever even asked him. It's not a concern of people who are hiring programmers.
I'm not saying college isn't useful, esspecially for many science degrees or medical or law school or something of that like. But most colleges programming departments are a joke, I used to TA for one at my college (even though I was a history major). They are behind the programming world, taught by tenured professors who are way out of date. Academia is a very poor format for teaching programming skills.