Finding things too easy leads to boredom?

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I started studying Java a few months back and for the first few weeks I found it so easy that I completely lost interest due to boredom. This has happened in the past when I've had to go at the same speed as others. Is there anything I can do about this other than reading on ahead?

When I took Java in high school, I always finished projects faster than everybody else. Sometimes when I finished, I kept going just to entertain myself. At least once, I did something not knowing we were about to do it anyway, which put me really far ahead. It did get pretty boring, but we were allowed to do whatever we wanted when we finished, so I played a lot of games.

Later when I took German in college, I found it to be much easier than the others in my class did. Since I always did pretty well with in-class discussion and tests, the prof. realized it wasn't very challenging for me and kind of boring, so she let me get away with not doing a lot of homework. I always came up with spontaneous answers when we went over things in class anyway.

And in Flash I was several chapters ahead until I got so bored of it I just couldn't be bothered to read the book anymore. That class was stupid and didn't teach anything, anyway. We taught ourselves from the book while the prof. chattered and interrupted all the time. It was annoying, and I just messed around online most of the time. She didn't care, especially since she knew how easy it was for me.

Unfortunately it isn't always that easy (see that I only have 3 examples after 5 years of college). But if I am ahead of everyone else, I usually just work ahead or find something else to do.

Yeah when I find things easy or repetitive I get bored and de-motivsted rather easily but when I find things too difficult I get bored and de-motivated as well hence it can be rather hard to motivate me at times.

Sometimes I get that way.

I am a math science asperger. When classes move too slow (and they just do for us) one thing I do is to go online and begin to find additional information about the subject. It helps me to not be board and it really expands my vision of the materials being taught. I think this may have contributed somewhat to me being asked by the school to math tutor and now to tutor chemistry.

I especially love chemistry and math. The math teachers know I am autistic and put a few things into the curriculum that help me not to be board. And chemistry, well there is no way to be board with chemistry. I went on line to research the spectral lines of magnesium in relation to isotopes and frequency for chemistry homework. I discovered that plasma adheres to magnesium, which is of special interest to me because I have been studying (on my own) magnetic field lines and how plasma circles around them. The most amazing thing is when pressure is applied to these magnetic field lines with plasma spiraling around them, they become solid and conduct electricity. Well that is truly remarkably exciting because the surface of the moon carries a charge. So now I am in very deep thought about how to utilize this information to the benefit of equipment on the moon.

So if computers are your thing, why not write a program while you are waiting for the neural typicals to catch up? Or build a computer? Or even more read about quantum computers. There are really great books out there. You have greatness in you, find it and don't be board.

Just a thought.

CyndiAn

Maths classes at school are way too easy! Because of that I just loose concentration.

Same here, but so far it hasn't been much of an issue to my final grades.

I don't think so.

Anything too easy in school is boring for any student. That is why gifted kids tend to have behavior because they are bored so they might get misdiagnosed instead with a disorder. Not all of them act up in school because my brother didn't do it despite finding the school work boring because it was too easy for him. I can remember him being frustrated and I would envy him because at least I wouldn't have homework if it was easy.

Only time I have ever been bored in school was too much talking from the teacher and when I was in a self contained classroom when I had to do schoolwork because it was too easy for me and I already knew how to do it. It was just the same school work over and over like I wasn't smart. Then they thought that was how I acted all the time and act in classes so that justified their opinions even more than I belonged in there. ADD was suspected then. I don't know if I would say I would be bored if I found the school work too hard, I just found it frustrating instead.

I've had this problem all throughout school, and I usually combat it by putting more effort into my projects and trying new things, as much as the project guidelines will allow. We were supposed to use Scratch to program a maze game in middle school, and I added three levels and a timer by the time the rest of the class had finished the one required level. If I can't add more to the project, I make flashcards and study guides and share them with the class. Or I'll do extra research on my own time to learn more about the subject.
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