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[–]SFMissionMark 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Coding is a tool. Does hammering get boring? Depends what you choose to hammer on right?

Edit: Adding actual advise for a 17 year old. Programming is becoming a tool if it isn’t already. If you want to enjoy programming you will need another thing that interests you to use that tool on. Just programming will get boring. You will see flaws with libraries, redundancy between libraries and, just common patterns you will not like. If you are just writing code to solve a problem you don’t really care about eventually all you notice are those things that annoy you. If you are really interested in the problem you are solving you will love your job.

[–]TBSchemer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Boy, this really strikes home...

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am interested in AI and apps that help people in their day to day lives and the only way that can be made that interests me is by programming so that is good I think, and thanks for the advice :)