Hints/tips/help in getting into good moode for coding ?

[Primoz128]

Well i more or less like/love coding, i am good at it, programed for 2 years, found PB that has the following features i love and couldn't find in any other language: Simplicity, easy to learn, amazing documentation with examples and in HELP file with index search, best debugger, amazing libraries, great community, (this is the NOT like one but, odd syntax).

And to all of those gems i still hardly find myself to go sit on chair/behind computer and start coding anything at all...

Is that cause i don't want challenges ? (I kinda don't like them... if they aren't for a 5/5 mark - grade in school <.< (forgot to mention i am in high school ? - that's personal...))
Or maybe cause i am not creative, but mostly copy cat ?

If anyone takes time to read this and help i will appreciate it.

[IdeasVacuum]

...could not be easier - you have to have a problem that can be solved with an app. It could be absolutely anything and you'll know what when it hits you, or hits someone else.

[Zach]

I think there are very few people in the world, that do any tasks solely for the joy of doing it, but I can understand where you are coming from somewhat.
Back when I was in Middle/Highschool, the Internet was a really huge awesome playground for me, in fact it had just recently been commercialized for Public use within the past couple of years at that point.. I could learn about all kinds of stuff surfing the web, and I discovered I liked the whole business of making a web site, started monkeying around with HTML and made all kinds of different pages in different formats, for different things..

When Javascript came around I ended up completely lost. It was a totally foreign concept and for some reason I just didn't "get it", and ever since then I fell behind with web technology, and never pursued a real career in web site design / coding, etc.. Even though I do know more now than I did back then, I have done a couple sites for friends only and made a few bucks but I'm not very into it these days..

It was almost exactly the same with Computer Programming. I had always toyed around with very simple stuff like Commodore Basic and then QBASIC, although I never really understood what I was doing. I spent hundreds of dollars on "Teach yourself" books for various languages and they didn't help all that much. Fast forward thru a couple other languages before I got to PureBasic, and here we are now.

I don't write code every day, but I like to program. I don't consider myself an expert by any means, but I would hope one day to make something that could generate some sort of income for me, if at least for a brief moment. I consider myself a Hobbyist, and PB matches up with that perfectly, as it is a hobbyist language.

There are other people here who have the same problem you do, when they write code it can be fun, fast and brilliant; but sometimes they don't write code for days, maybe even weeks. I don't think there is really any sort of way to psyche yourself up to get in to the "mood" to program. Sometimes you just have to force yourself to do it, open the IDE, open a Project and look at it, compile a test run to look at your progress so far. Sometimes you might open it up, change a line of code, and call it quits for the day. Sometimes you might write an entire new subsystem for your program, it all just comes down to you personally and how you feel about things that day.

I was watching an Interview with author Tom Clancy, and something he said intrigued me both as a person and as a writer; "There is no such thing as writers block". I can't remember the entire conversation word for word, but he basically said sometimes you have to sit yourself down and force yourself to write. What comes out may not be good, but it is a means to an end, eventually you will have written something you know is good and that is worth keeping, perhaps something you wouldn't have written otherwise.

[Primoz128]

Well i been programing in Game Maker GML for easy game development and if i force myself well enough i can do it a lot or when i started i was extremely into it just doing it... friend of mine i meet using GM well he makes lots of small games and said to me i got bored cause i actually never finished anything but learned lots of and made it half made project...

Oh well ill try to force myself as soon as possible to do something... anything... .

[c4s]

friend of mine i meet using GM well he makes lots of small games and said to me i got bored cause i actually never finished anything but learned lots of and made it half made project...

Yes, that's a huge problem for anyone trying to start programming. I guess the expectations are simply to high these days.
I started because I really wanted to know what the magic behind is. When I had my first "guess the number" game in QBasic I was fascinated and slowly started to learn more and more: Basic text encrypter, prime calculators, strange graphic tools etc. I solely did it for my own enjoyment, none else ever saw these programs. I never wanted to do the next best 3D shooter because of course I was being realistic and had enough fun doing what I did.

Anyway, what I've learned is: Start (s)lowly and finish your projects. Do it step by step!
And for additional fun release it into the "wild"... Trust me, it's really satisfying when you get feedback from other users around the world!