Am i doing the right thing?
I've been seriously into software development since around 2021 — or at least, I would have been if I had focused on building a solid foundation instead of project-hopping, distro-hopping, trying to make a game engine without knowing how to use CMake, and generally not saving any of my work. You know what they say: "Projects die, experience lives." (Okay, no one actually says that — but they should.) At least I have some foundation to build on. Honestly, I feel like I’m still better off than someone who just finished a coding bootcamp (I hope). To make things even messier, I’m also studying for the YKS — Turkey’s university entrance exam — because I have this stubborn dream of becoming a “real” software engineer (how naive, right?). Surprisingly, I’m getting pretty good at practice exams. But if there’s one thing I’m known for, it’s messing things up exactly when they start going well. Long story short: While still preparing for THE exam, I decided to start building a game engine — but using a higher-level language this time. I actually liked it! Then I got sad thinking about my probable future screw-ups, so I tried switching to Rust. Even though I’m not native to write native code, I still found Rust way better than C++ for memory safety and package management. (Of course, it's still perfectly possible to waste tons of time making nothing productive with it.) Also, I made a live wallpaper to count down the days left until the exam: There's less than 2 months left. Goddammit. Why can’t I just focus on studying and leave the “next-gen concurrent programming language” for later? Maybe it’s not a bad thing, though — all universities kinda suck anyway (!). So, first impressions? Do you think I could actually create my own programming language or a full game framework someday? Or will I just sleepwalk through college, doing the bare minimum? Leave your comment... or don’t. Either way, this is a precious little archive of my journey.
I've been seriously into software development since around 2021 — or at least, I would have been if I had focused on building a solid foundation instead of project-hopping, distro-hopping, trying to make a game engine without knowing how to use CMake, and generally not saving any of my work.
You know what they say: "Projects die, experience lives." (Okay, no one actually says that — but they should.)
At least I have some foundation to build on. Honestly, I feel like I’m still better off than someone who just finished a coding bootcamp (I hope).
To make things even messier, I’m also studying for the YKS — Turkey’s university entrance exam — because I have this stubborn dream of becoming a “real” software engineer (how naive, right?). Surprisingly, I’m getting pretty good at practice exams. But if there’s one thing I’m known for, it’s messing things up exactly when they start going well.
Long story short:
While still preparing for THE exam, I decided to start building a game engine — but using a higher-level language this time. I actually liked it!
Then I got sad thinking about my probable future screw-ups, so I tried switching to Rust. Even though I’m not native to write native code, I still found Rust way better than C++ for memory safety and package management. (Of course, it's still perfectly possible to waste tons of time making nothing productive with it.)
Also, I made a live wallpaper to count down the days left until the exam:
There's less than 2 months left. Goddammit.
Why can’t I just focus on studying and leave the “next-gen concurrent programming language” for later?
Maybe it’s not a bad thing, though — all universities kinda suck anyway (!).
So, first impressions?
Do you think I could actually create my own programming language or a full game framework someday?
Or will I just sleepwalk through college, doing the bare minimum?
Leave your comment... or don’t.
Either way, this is a precious little archive of my journey.
