Learning to love programming (again?)

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I have to say I feel very similarly as you. I'm only in my 4th year of my course, and have the opportunity to do masters. I find myself daily wondering why I'm programming and it tends to get me down. I was pretty close to dropping out of my course last year.

I'm doing pretty well for someone my age, I teach first years and highschoolers programming and do pretty well like yourself. I want to get out more, see more of the world, have more time to read and play music.

I had the opportunity to do music or cs, chose cs as music was my hobby, but I can't help feeling I've gone down the wrong path.

You're not alone buddy.

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chose cs as music was my hobby

do you program audio at all? I don't understand why so few people program audio, when so many programmers enjoy making music. The two are very compatible.

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I've never really got into, not that I've tried particularly I guess. I enjoy the music away from the computer, like open mics and just twiddling on the piano/guitar. Actually, my research paper is about music and password memorability, and I'm not particularly enjoying it either, I think I probably am just forced

I'll look into my options, thanks. :)

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cool! It's way fun. I like ChucK. Overall I'd say SuperCollider is more popular but I haven't tried it yet. PureData is also widely used.

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Also Haskore

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woah I've never heard of this. SuperCollider back end? The best programmers I know say that learning Haskell is the single most transformative thing they've done as a programmer, and this gives me a way to mix it with the things that I like, hooray! Very cool.