Is a programmer a creative profession?

Krill19272019-08-21 09:30:44

Programming

Krill1927, 2019-08-21 09:30:44

Hello everyone
I was wondering
Is a programmer a creative profession?
Or does it need a mathematical mindset?
And those who do not fumble in the exact sciences are generally better not to climb?
I decided to ask the professionals because
Someone will tell me they say "no, you're bad at mathematics, you don't have to be a programmer, you need a mathematical mindset"
In another source, programming is equated with art
. What is your opinion?
PS If my opinion is interesting. Then I think that a programmer is a person, not how much with a mat. mentality as much as fantasy. After all, if you think about it, even a simple addition of two numbers can be solved in more than one way. Thank you for your attention!

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sim3x, 2019-08-21
@sim3x

Is a programmer a creative profession?
Or does it need a mathematical mindset?
And those who do not fumble in the exact sciences are generally better not to climb?

no*3
If you need automation and are able to read, write and repeat instructions, then you have the skills to start learning to code (or any other activity)

EVGENY T., 2019-08-21
@Beshere

A programmer is an engineer.
If an engineer is friends with mathematics, it will be easier for him to work with the subject area where this mathematics is needed. If an engineer has a creative beginning, then it will be easier for him to solve problems where non-standard, new moves are needed.
I would outline the minimum for starting training as a programmer: to master mathematics within the school, to show the ability to reason logically.

Anton R., 2019-08-21
@anton_reut

Yes and no.
YES - because each task has several solutions - exactly how to do this is creativity.
NO - because programming is an exact science and the customer will hardly get to the bottom that the code "looks somehow pale" and asks to "add red", the code works and that's the point - this is the main plus of the exact sciences. While in Count. in design, for example, a complete 3.14 hell is going on when the customer’s secretary can easily give you a great layout simply because she didn’t like it with her vocational education.

Adamos, 2019-08-21
@Adamos

Programming is not a profession for procrastinators.
Those who like to speculate on abstract topics that have no practical significance.
Come on, don't linger.

Alexander Skusnov, 2019-08-21
@AlexSku

There was such a dispute about chess: is it a sport or an art? Those who saw the victims of Mikhail Tal understood that it was art. Or take football. Do you need to hit hard and accurately? No, team play is important.
Programming requires mathematics, but mathematics must be loved. Therefore, it is also art.

d-stream, 2019-08-21
@d-stream

After all, if you think about it, even a simple addition of two numbers can be solved in more than one way.

Of course)
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Eugene Wolf, 2019-08-21
@Wolfnsex

Is a programmer a creative profession?

Programmers are different and the degree of perception of creativity. Sharpening nuts at the factory is also quite a work of art ...

Or does it need a mathematical mindset?

As I already said - programmers are different, there are definitely those who do not need it. Although, in general, any machine is primarily mathematics, I would even say arithmetic, which underlies any calculations, and machines are, first of all, powerful computing systems. Make a conclusion ... By the way, with a deeper approach to the issue of "development" in general, and not "abstract programming", you will notice that many areas will be based on a lot of higher mathematics.

PS If my opinion is interesting. Then I think that a programmer is a person, not how much with a mat. mentality as much as fantasy.

There are enough of those too. It seems to me that such people, "with imagination", once came up with JavaScript and Internet Explorer.

After all, if you think about it, even a simple addition of two numbers can be solved in more than one way.

Those are the ones I was talking about above.
But, summing up, I can repeat that programmers, like designers-artists, are different. For example, there is an artist who draws still lifes in gouache, and there is an artist who draws sets of vector icons... and if the first of them requires mathematics very conditionally, then the second actively applies not only mathematics, but also geometry and a number of other sciences.

Lord_Dantes, 2019-08-21
@Lord_Dantes

Oh lope of answers and I will tell you my opinion :)
I think yes. Everyone knows how to cheat in their own way)
Needed to develop cooler things or already in the backend I think more, if not delving into the front.
In mathematics, I seem to have a 6-7 (out of 12) annual, geometry, physics, chemistry I don’t rummage at all.
Become a web developer, a programmer is a broad concept.
Exactly.

BasiC2k, 2019-08-21
@BasiC2k

Rather, YES is a creative profession, because. according to the law, the result of the work (program code) is subject to copyright, along with the work of writers.

Alexey, 2019-08-29
@Demanoidos

The throw-in is counted :) The dispute from the Windows category is a mustdie, and Linux is a darling.

Alibaba2018, 2019-09-10
@Alibaba2018

Is construction a creative profession?
If you need to build barracks / pipes / and all sorts of other standard objects, then yes
. If you need to build some kind of Versailles, a skyscraper or another unique object (airport?), then IMHO it’s definitely art