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How about puzzle solving? I've been asked this: If you enjoy solving puzzles, might that indicate you'll enjoy programming?
by Tempest1981 5y ago
How about puzzle solving? I've been asked this:
If you enjoy solving puzzles, might that indicate you'll enjoy programming?
- crummy 5y agoI think so, debugging often feels like problem solving and sometimes I spend a lot of time debugging.
- f6v 5y agoI enjoy programming from time to time(less than in my early career), but absolutely hate puzzles.
- bawolff 5y agoI think programming is one of the least puzzle solving like activities in our industry. Want to do incident response to figure out which 15 factors came together in perfect harmony to take down the site for 6 hours? That's a lot like puzzle solving imo. Want to do security "research" (aka find vulns), i think that is a lot like puzzle solving. Normal programming? Not so much. Maybe if you are debugging a complicated bug.