I mean programming is more or less understanding a thing well enough to tell the machine how to go through the steps of it. I've always thought of it in a simil

I mean programming is more or less understanding a thing well enough to tell the machine how to go through the steps of it. I've always thought of it in a similar vein to the problem solving we use in design. So if we think of design or writing as creative, yes I think programming is too.