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> Programming is a very intimate experience. >The same as creating art. It is the manifestation of your thoughts and opinions, small and large, put out in to t
by dgfitz 5y ago
> Programming is a very intimate experience.
>The same as creating art. It is the manifestation of your thoughts and opinions, small and large, put out in to the world.
I respectfully disagree. This thought process is why other people are left holding the bag at 11pm on a Friday fixing the 'art' of someone else. Computer Science is a derivative of mathematics. Math is not art. Math IS beautiful, explicitly because it is NOT ambiguous or subject to interpretation. Math is right or wrong. It works or it is flawed.
Programming isn't art.
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- reidjs 5y agoComputer Games are art and games are one result of computer science. Can a science create an art? I guess color theory can explain why we enjoy colors. But the science came after the art. I agree that data structures and algorithms are not art, but when combined in unique ways they create art. I think the problem is the field is so new and these terms aren’t well defined.
- Aeolun 5y agoCode exists on a continuum. It’s not correct or incorrect. It is better or worse. Unless you consider anything less than perfect to be wrong, but that’ll just make nobody want to work with you.
- dgfitz 5y agoIt’s not better or worse: it works or it doesn’t. Making something convoluted and “artistic” just makes it harder for the next dev to deal with.
- leetrout 5y agoNo one said code needs to be artistic. You have twisted my words. I equated it to art as the physical manifestation of something that represents someone's mental imaging / modeling.