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Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers

• ExpiredLink 11y ago
  Programmers are not artists and have no "creative block". What is he talking about?
  • JoeAltmaier 11y ago
    I spent my college years writing very little code. Burnt out; too busy; depressed? I don't know; but I was blocked. Previous to college I had written thousands of lines per year, since junior high school. So call it what you will. But it happens.
  • tbrownaw 11y ago
    Programmers are not artists True. Mostly. and have no "creative block". False (with a possible exception for mindless code monkeys, if such actually exist). It's not hard to get stuck on a wrong approach to a problem, or to know you're doing something wrong but not quite why it's wrong, or to have your mind go blank when you're trying to solve something.
  • cymetica 11y ago
    I think he means like gardeners or mathematicians do not have "creative block".