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Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex
- LifeQuestioner 10y agothe reason i find coding fun is it's "technically and ethically complex" and hard work and challenging. If something isn't hard and challenging, i cant focus and the thing is boring. Not sure what this article offers
- douche 10y agoCoding certainly is fun, for some subset of people. Otherwise I wouldn't be grinding away blissfully at porting a C++/Lua game engine to C#/IronPython on this beautiful Saturday morning, for no greater reason than my own enjoyment. Not everybody finds this enjoyable, but not everybody finds doing puzzles, or crosswords, or playing basketball, or tinkering on cars fun.
- ChoHag 10y agoBugger. I wish I'd known I've not been enjoying myself these past 30 years.
- jschwartzi 10y agoI guess I'm in the minority here for finding coding challenging but not necessarily fun. I don't enjoy programming, per se, but I enjoy designing and architecting a system that solves the problem. Programming is just something I do once the fun part is over. It's necessary to realize the vision.
- ddp 10y agoProgramming's fun. The entire C-family is like programming with broken glass though. If you don't find debugging fun, you're in the wrong profession IMHO.