Mike wrote:I concur. Quite often coding is just a mechanic, straightforward task. Database programming being the most obvious example to that class. However, in other cases it is also possible to express your creativity in writing programs, like one can do with music, poetry, photography, painting and other activities. You might just missed out on this facet by taking your experience as whole what programming is about.
I remember the first book my boss handed too me the first day.
Then he said.
- Read it to see if you can use something in the book.
He didn't always liked my unconventional way to create database apps and said more then once. - It must look like Windows standard. Sometimes (after complaining) he could ask me, Hmmm, how did you fix that problem? It was when he was unable to solve it himself.
Coding
Yes i'm aware of that that. Even math is for some people a beautiful form of art. I can understand that programming is both fun and creative for those who deal with it. Solve problems, developing new ways of doing things better, optimize code, save memory, improve speed, use colours, shapes, animations and much more.
Like one (black and white) photographer once said...
Colours don't speak to me
Unfortanly coding is about the same thing for me, i can't feel the fun in coding, it's too logical even if the result feels way more artistic for me.
Until i was about 25 years old, my whole life was about sounds, colours and shapes and it wasn't until i got older that i begin to use the left brain a bit more. My mother was an artist, my brother is a musician, my granny was a musician and artist as well, my grandpa an inventor and artist blacksmith, and so on.
When playing guitar, i deal with something that feels anything but logic. There's isn't any logic in playing guitar, just feelings. And that's the way i'm used too work.
Perhaps i can think up some ideas for new type of games, that would be more my thing.
