cbodolus

Respectfully I disagree. I’ve found that ‘talking about doing it’ will cause problems if you aren’t able to do it and hold schedule with everything else. From personal experience, for parent post, I’ve found it’s been best to implement what you can for unit tests and grow it yourself slowly or at whatever pace you are comfortable with, but set the bar high for yourself, beat it, and then maybe try to get others on board. This only holds if there is no mentor you could talk into helping you. Just personal experience. :-/ If the culture doesn’t encourage them now, announcing you will be doing it might only hinder the effort.

There are a lot of CS students that can't program.

I've grown up diagnosed as ADD (and ADHD), ODD, and Bipolar. The bipolar was because I was not mature yet, and had trouble communicating effectively. I get angered when I hear people talk as if these aren't real. My ADD makes it to where I have a tough time evaluating priorities to the point where my impulsiveness can cause me to 'not' do thing. I just can't. Like I recently tried doing a bit of homework on paper (first time to write on paper this semester) and my mind raced faster than I could write (I just saw the answer), but most importantly I had trouble just writing. I just couldn't force myself to do it. The hyperactive portion of ADHD is just because I'm either 150% going all out, or I'm asleep. (This makes 60 hour work weeks a breeze because I just keep going and going and going, as long as I have someone around that can help keep my focus, or if my attention isn't needed (like large compiles for programs, somehow I can focus better in the spurts between compiles). The ODD part comes in because I love to challenge people, especially authority, but only when I feel like they are incorrect or misguided. Interestingly though, I find that, for example, I can't bring myself to do the dishes when at my Parents house, but at anyone else's house I'm the first to clean the table up after dinner.