Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers

Re:Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers by ExpiredLink on Friday April 17, 2015 @04:08PM (#9396892)

Programmers are not artists and have no "creative block". What is he talking about?

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Re:Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers by tbrownaw on Friday April 17, 2015 @04:35PM (#9397058)

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.

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Re:Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers by JoeAltmaier on Friday April 17, 2015 @04:16PM (#9396933)

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.

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Re:Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers by cymetica on Saturday April 18, 2015 @11:31AM (#9399760)

I think he means like gardeners or mathematicians do not have "creative block".

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