Is it normal that i enjoy programming as a hobby?

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If it's something you like, keep on doing it. Stuff like that can get you a good job and make you money.
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Why wouldn't it be normal?

I enjoy it too but hate troubleshooting browser performance issues when building games with animation where precise timing is required.

The more coding I do, the more I liken coding to any other productive hobby. It doesn't look particularly exciting from outside, but when you start trying to figure something out and testing and debugging, you really get drawn in and time flies by.

If you REALLY enjoy it, I wouldn't suggest making it into a job, though that's just my bias. Coding for a company is fundamentally different from coding for yourself, or even for a group of friends. There's so much bureaucracy and "standards" and "tech stacks" and forced version control for every single little thing that every time I have the chance to code a simple, personal program to help me do something else, it feels like I'm a kid at the playground again. The money IS good, though.

I would actually encourage most people who like programming to get into either graphics coding (WebGL, Processing.org, etc) or games coding (Unity, Unreal, etc). Even messing around with Javascript for web apps can be interesting. Instant feedback, straightforward debugging, awesome end-products, and still marketable if you have the will to actually finish a project.

I don't like coding, didn't get past the basics such as connecting strings and those functions, methods, or whatever, and the basic arithmetic stuff such as ceiling, floor, or whatever, or exponentials or various things, tried to look for guidance for the things i wanted like downloading a physics library, experimenting with Havoc Physics SDK and other stuff, and also previous wish to code a little bit for Source Engine and implement scripts in hammer, or code some weapons, but due to frustration, I just let go and just stayed with whatever came to me better by mental acquisition or whatever I was taught professionally. so yeah, i'm that spoiled expensive path looking kiddo, either it's professional tutoring, or i'm all lazy, forum spammer, don't know, don't really get angry at me for that XD

It is completely normal for you to enjoy anything that your cognitive capacity grants you to be able to perform task and as result of feel reward, and either way around, people who have low confidence or feel frustrated with alone, let alone relationships, social life and the other stuff, but mere frustration with inability to figure out how to perform in what way to achieve the desired result and the reward as result of long term commitment such as coding a project, or creating a 3d model, or editing a video in after effects and adding VFX elements and these frustrations that usually get better with professional tutors that teach you in shortcuts instead of long 5 6 hour videos, maybe costs money, but the reward is great, the feeling of freedom, the feeling of able to explore and not let something draw you back. that's the way I felt about moving from 3ds max and learning autodesk maya and very minimal stuff which were just a very small fragment of learning process i did learn online but largely with live tutor, we paid plenty, fuck ton of money, but the reward in the end to be able to freely navigate, and watch 1-2 minute tutorials to fill up the forgotten or the not previously known gaps is just so rewarding, but, the problem, money, i wish education was affordable and everyone just got proper amount of nurture so people worked and as result of were less lazy and lethargic or rage quitters as result of frustration which is what happens to me when i'm unable to learn something at a slow pace, but really, if you spend money, that will reward you. yeah i can't speak for everyone, but I hope education sooner or later will be just much more free, we can solve major problems in world like excessive drug use or gambling, I don't know, just my speculation.

Yeah, that's cool. I learned HTML too a while ago. I also tried learning Java a few times, but it's really hard.

Congrats on finding something you enjoy.

I’m trying to learn media queries in CSS at the moment and it’s a slog, but I happily wasted half an hour learning how to make text look like it’s on fire by putting shadows in just the right places. It goes so much faster when you enjoy it.

You can make good money coding. Its ine of those things you dont even neee a degree for. If you can show employers that you are a better coder than others they will hire you over some noob with a degree.