Learning "useful skills" preemptively while doing no actual work is counterproductive. It would probably work if you could motivate yourself all along, but in the current world with all the distractions, you probably would not.
It's like learning to swim in an empty pool while being reassured that it would be filled once you're able to swim.
Programming is instantly addictive because you create from the day two. Math isn't.
Programming is instantly addictive because you create from the day two. Math isn't.
It isn't, because students aren't given problems to be solved. They're given the solutions first.
The profound feeling of figuring out a solution to a problem (a real one, unlike the ones given at school) is hard to explain to someone who did not experience it. That's why, having choice to do Masters degree in Math or CS, I choose Math.
Students are sad losers unless they practice programming before and even instead of college.
Programming is addictive, learned long before you decide to specialize in it, and you make up problems for yourself creating unique software products from day one.
With math, you only reiterate the same thing over and over.
That's why, having choice, I choose to work as a programmed early and do as little as possible without being kicked off at my higher education facility.
Oh no, wait - I did as little as possible even before I began working. I just amn't good at that learning thing perhaps.
With math, you only reiterate the same thing over and over.
If you do that, yes, it's dull and pointless. The thing is, you don't need to do it. It's like complaining that programming sucks because writing hello world over and over again is boring.
At this point I have to say we are just different people, I get those feelings from programming and not math for you it is vice verse. Even when the Math is programming related it still doesn't hit those cues. For me, my friend, happiness is a warm compiler.
Programming is instantly addictive because you create from the day two. Math isn't.