On 10 August 2017 at 12:21, Kushal Das <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/08/17, Gaurav Sitlani wrote: > > On Aug 10, 2017 11:23 AM, "Kushal Das" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Next video in the queue > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z16ew1iP_Eo > > > > I am not sure how do you write emails, but the tool could not quote the > original mail properly. > > > > > > > > Nice Video , this time hope I'm sending this mail right as last one was a > > top post. > > > > People get a lot of ideas , whatever it is good or bad but sometimes they > > have a habit of over thinking and they don't really tend to implement > their > > idea. > > The major thing I got to learn from this video is Never Give up and don't > > stop being creative. > > Correct, and it becomes somewhat easier when you are only dealing with > code. A similar example can be all the small stupid code which we write > to learn how things work, or just to have fun with computers. > > That also brings the point of writing and reading code regularly. > > > > > I want to share a small experience. > > Please bear with me. > > It was a month back when I started planning for my final year project. > > I had got an idea of developing a software through which I can control > the > > mouse pointer by my hand and perform normal mouse related operations. > > But just a day before my first technical review I saw an exact same > project > > on github which was implemented in C++. > > I gave up , next day at the time of my review another group of my > > classmates who had heard of my idea added more functionality over it . > > Finally I faced a rejection that was because I gave up at that moment not > > because of the fact that someone performed better than me. > > > > Even my idea was not that good was actually something worth working on. > > If anyone faces a similar kind of situation (I hope you never have to) > > please don't give up just build what you want, for the fun part at least. > > That can help in boosting the confidence level and will develop a sense > of > > accomplishment. > > My idea got rejected but anyway I'll build it .Please do suggest some > > functionality that I can add . > > Release the initial code with documentation and a proper license first, > so that people can actually test and see what did you do. New features > can come later. Remember to release early and release often. > > Kushal > -- > Fedora Cloud Engineer > CPython Core Developer > https://kushaldas.in > https://dgplug.org > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org >
The video was inspiring and one quote I really like from the video was "Ideas first , tools later " because that's how most of the self taught programmers learn they learn by doing and building what they love. Ps : This is my first post in the mailing list, hope I am doing it right. Regards Pradhvan Bisht _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org
