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Discussion on: #CNC2021 "Code More" Mission 1 Submission Thread

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I want to learn the Rust programming language. I hope this will improve my memory management skills in code and learn some best practices out-of-the-box.

I know I will have reached my goal if I feel confident working on a non-trivial project in Rust.

I am assuming I have chosen a project with a small-enough scope for this challenge, that I will have the time to do it (full-time work and part-time student) and that I will actually manage to finally understand Rust.

Most at risk is the time constraint issue.

The reasons are: bad work/life balance, being too scattered with my concentration (going down rabbit holes I shouldn't be going down) and life bumps that come along and swallow up all your time rather suddenly.

Ways to solve these: leave work at the time I want to and not the time my colleagues think I should leave (i.e. no meetings that go on into the night), make time to really concentrate on what I love doing (coding and studying) and finally sometimes delegating certain life bumps to other people (like lawyers... yeah sometimes they can help you even if you have to pay them a lot).

The biggest one to tackle first is to leave work when I feel it's reasonable to. I failed learning Rust before because of the time constraint :(