I was actually put off taking up programming for a while because of this "it's for people who like solving puzzles" attitude. Admittedly I have spent days trac

I was actually put off taking up programming for a while because of this "it's for people who like solving puzzles" attitude. Admittedly I have spent days tracking down bugs in personal projects because I couldn't leave them in a broken state, but that was partly because I'd done so much work already that to leave it crippled by a bug seemed criminal. But solving Rubik's cubes? If you enjoy that go right ahead, I'll be over here doing something interesting. I feel the same way about the kind of problems that appear in pure mathematics books and I worry I'm missing out. Colouring adjacent tiles or whatever doesn't intrinsically interest me.