I think there’s a misconception that students in computer science spend every waking hour coding. What actually happens, from my experience, is that I allocate a couple days purely for research and watching tutorials. And about a day or two before the deadline, I’ll actually start writing my code. Here’s what my day sort of looked like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
8:00 AM to 9:00 AM<\/strong> – Get ready for the day. Turn on some Netflix, wash up, eat breakfast, and tidy up my room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM<\/strong> – Check Discord for group project updates, check my OSU email, and write a priority list of tasks that need to be done by end of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM<\/strong> – Watched more advanced tutorials on creating 3D terrains through the Unity game engine. Ended up creating a basic grassland and ocean terrain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM<\/strong> – Break time set aside for gym and lunch<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM<\/strong> – Check Discord for more group project updates, check my OSU email, and reinspect my priority task list<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM<\/strong> – This is where I do a bulk majority of any coding task. I spent an hour looking up tutorials on how to create walls in order to restrict action outside of designated camera limits. Implemented the dice drag-and-roll action to prevent the user from throwing the dice outside of a scene camera’s limit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM<\/strong> – Time to unwind from the day. Netflix, dinner, and video games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM<\/strong> – Worked on other coursework that’s due this week in my Intro to Cybersecurity class. Check Discord, school email, and priority task list one last time. Check out for the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don’t get me wrong, there are definitely some days when I spend 10-12 hours of unfiltered time just coding. I have days where I just don’t want to think about coding and that’s completely okay. As long as I work in increments every day up to a deadline, I’m able to wrap up any work that needs my attention with plenty of time to spare. There are days when I seem to just get it and there days when I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing. But those feelings pass with proper maintenance, and keeping myself consistently committed to a schedule really helps me stay focused on my path to a coding career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think there’s a misconception that students in computer science spend every waking hour coding. What actually happens, from my experience, is that I allocate a couple days purely for research and watching tutorials. And about a day or two before the deadline, I’ll actually start writing my code. Here’s what my day sort of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12462,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/littlecodethings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/littlecodethings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/littlecodethings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/littlecodethings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/littlecodethings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/littlecodethings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/littlecodethings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/littlecodethings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/littlecodethings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/littlecodethings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}