My Month Long Beginner To-Do List Journey.

[TakeAByteOfThisRah]

I've never posted a discussion on here before so I hope this is in the right place.

It's been just over a month now that I've been working on the beginner to do list.

Before starting on this project, I'd completed a Java 101 class and tried multiple times to take the intermediate java class but for the most part, I'd cheated myself out of learning out of chronic procrastination.

For four years, I'd been making myself take classes when I finally realized I never wanted to be there in the first place and it wasn't the best environment for me to learn in, so I dropped out.

I think that's one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life.

Since then, I've been able to learn on my own at my own pace without the stress and I've learned far more things practically for free that I'm actually interested in and that will actually help me in the span of months than I did in my years at college.

I managed to get through codecademy's intro to java programming or whatever it was called and a good way through the following intermediate course.

I did use AI, but I tried to ensure I used it as much as possible to force me to learn without doing anything for me or giving me any answers.

I believe I've managed to use ai in a way that's actually helped me learn in a way that was much clearer and easier to understand than it would've been otherwise.

If you're curious about how I did that, idk, make a comment.

Maybe git hub has a direct message feature or find some way to contact me.

Then at some point, I'd watched a couple youtube videos on how to learn java programming and a couple of them said project based learning was the way to go.

I looked up java project based learning and found my way here.

I ended up getting confused on what exactly I was supposed to do, but I used AI to help guide me through a bunch of set up difficulties and to provide direction when I was lost.

To try and criticize my own learning process: it’s entirely possible that I spent way too much time chatting with AI about this project, which ended up distracting me from actually making progress on the project.

Although, I suppose the point of this journey was to learn, and I did learn a lot while chatting to an AI about this project over this past month: So, task failed successfully?

The thing is, that after a month of having done this: I’m starting to get sick of it.

My goal in having worked on this project was to build up skills to break into tech, become a software engineer, fullstack developer, AI engineer, something.

However, now I’m starting to reconsider.

I’ve always been a huge gamer, and when I was a kid, I wanted to be a game developer.

But then one day I saw that game developers don’t get paid nearly as much on average as other tech roles, and I gave up on that dream.

Yet lately I’ve been looking into a lot of videos on game design, and that dream has come back to me.

Why can’t I make games? Why don’t I take a break from this project to try and pursue game development?

So that’s what I’m going to do. Thanks for reading this message. I hope my journey goes well and I hope whatever journey you’re on goes well too.