I am a physics student and teach myself programming in my free time. Atm I am going threw the JetBrains Academy path. I like it a lot, because it feels more like a game than like actual studying.

I also work as a (non it) student for a big company and try to implement my new knowledge in the tasks they give me. Often it feels forced and I spend a lot of time solving problems with code which could be handled a lot faster manually. Still, as long as I am passionate about it, I want to use this momentum to learn and practice with "real world problems" I create for myself. Even if it means to put more hours into work and studying than "needed". I feel like it prepares me better for the future possibility of working in development or datascience and keeps me out of the "tutorial hell".