What have you wasted your time learning about programming and web development in general?

Question

Programming

Probably each of us is familiar with the feeling "Am I doing it wrong" and "Who needs it." At what point did this happen to you? How much time did you waste and what did you spend it on? What else has never come in handy in real work?

Answer 1

Computer games and excessive TV viewing.
If you calculate how much time I lost in my youth from 12 to 22 years old watching music channels and playing computer games, you get 2-3 years of complete idleness that could be spent on learning programming.
I really regret that I lost a lot of time in my youth, but it seems to me that everything is fixable. Now I'm over 25 and I'm just starting to learn Java, but I like what I do.
And earlier I worked at a construction site, at a car wash, even as a janitor)))) But I can't call it a waste of time. As the Japanese say: if you have not had problems in your life, then you need to buy them.

Answer 2

Nothing. The programming process, even if no one needs the result, in any case pumps the skill. Even if you never write in this language/technology again, you will profit in the form of new architectural solutions, for example.

Answer 3

PHP

Answer 4

To the answers on the toaster.

Answer 5

"Who needs it besides me"
if you need it - why would you care about someone else?
any experience goes to the piggy bank, nothing superfluous happens.

Answer 6

SASS, LESS and all the other shit. When they appeared, I skimmed through my eyes and immediately understood the catastrophe that they would pull with them. All this mainstream is from the evil one.

Answer 7

On Sharepoint.

Answer 8

It seems to me that it is critically important to bring any undertaking to at least some logically coherent state and publish it. Then, at least for posterity, they will go to Github and look, "that's the kind of garbage my ancestor wrote." Agree, there is charm in this. And, of course, closer results, lines in the portfolio there, at least the theoretical possibility that the program / library / site / product will have users or those who want to continue their efforts.
Try to avoid just writing on the table, the effort is purely dissipated in the universe.