Programming
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- Pupsipu0
learning becomes ridiculously difficult when you get older. It's not that the brain has more info, it's that the individual neurons are falling apart, toxins build up and make everything slower. Neurons are also less flexible, so they don't tend to make as many connections. Signals become weaker too. So if you want to learn something, hurry the fuck up.
I think it's important to have motivation. You have to set some goals, some project you want to accomplish. Without that, dicking around with some little programming experiments you'll be fooling yourself that you're comfortable programming when you're not. It's being able to handle size and complexity in a program that forces your brain to get with the programming.
From the perspective of making a project and getting others to pay attention to it, I think you should stay away from languages where you can't easily deploy the content and get attention for it.
- I think your first paragraph is too bleak. It's not piano lessons.Corvo2
- it's no joke. It's one thing for a programmer to learn a new language when he's 30, it's another thing for an artist to learn how to use a whole other hemisphere in the brain. When neurons aren't used they degrade faster.Pupsipu
- to learn how to use a whole other hemisphere in the brain. When neurons aren't used they degrade faster.Pupsipu
- You're talking as an artist, I believe?Corvo2
- :DCorvo2
- Look, I've had some difficulties learning new stuff, but that's not because my brain is de-composing itself now that I'm on my thirties.Corvo2
- I'm on my thirties. It's because I have no time or disposition to dedicate to it.Corvo2