It came as a result of the classes being sooo boring I just couldn't stand them ! nor could I just not attend the classes as I would be marked absent and be penalized. Thus, I adapted : multitasking. switching rapidly between multiple things at once, doing many things at once.
So, I could "follow" the class while reading a novel . Classes became more bearable as I could just switch to reading my novels whenever the teacher started ... well ... being boring.
As years passed, I kept on using the technique on and on and on. I apparently did not notice anything bad as long as I was still doing my Bachelor. It was all good. I would even study while simultaneously watching a movie !
Just some few months ago, I noticed that my efficiency at coding was so low whenever I tried to do something else at the same time. I would spend much more time than was normally required when multitasking and worse, I would even be less efficient (Boy!, didn't I just say that word ?). So, after analyzing the situation for a while, I came to a conclusion :
No matter how well you think you are good at multitasking, you're surely mistaken !
The thing with multitasking people is that they always think they've got it under control when actually they don't. multitasking wastes an awful lot of time. you have to switch between tasks and the time needed for your brain to change "context" increases with the complexity of the tasks. (http://www.apa.org/releases/multitasking.html) .
So, now I try as hard as possible to do one and only one thing at a time. for, it is better for me that way. and I achieve high levels of concentration when I do. That's what is needed to develop good software. otherwise, you'll end up with so many bugs in your code or worse, you won't even make progress.
