Prompts for “How to Fix a Motorcycle”

Due on Monday, September 17 by 10pm

Commit your response as a PDF to your short responses repository. Note that Github does not always email notifications when an invite is sent, so if you did not get an invite via email, go to the Your Profile page in Github and click on the Repositories tab. You should find a repository of the form cs334_readingresponse-<your username>. If you don’t, please contact me.

1. First, commit last week’s response to your repository so that both responses are in the same location.
2. Think back about your experiences doing programming in the past. Think of a time when it was difficult and you were feeling demoralized. This may have been a programming assignment, programming for work, or programming for fun. Now that you’ve read Pirsig’s essay, do any of his “gumption traps” apply to your experience? Describe your experience to me.
3. Whether Pirsig’s advice applies to your situation or not, what would you do differently now if you were in that situation again?