Comments on: What do you like about coding?

By: Walter Lounsbery

Walter Lounsbery — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:21:26 +0000

I agree with your list, especially on the existential merits. On the pragmatic side, programming is my second career. Although I’ve done lots of consulting, contracting, and various “perm” jobs in 14 years, it still seems more stable than my first career. I can always find work and the pay is better than my first career, aerospace engineering.

By: Davy Brion

Davy Brion — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:27:50 +0000

@Tech Per:

ahh owkey… not exactly what i was talking about, but to each his own

By: Tech Per

Tech Per — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:45:27 +0000

@Davy:

My comment about control goes deeper than that of controlling the functionality in the application. It is about controlling the computer. Telling it what to do, and seeing it perform your commands. Kind of like a little S/M without the whipping

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By: Davy Brion

Davy Brion — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:00:23 +0000

@Tech Per:

that kinda goes both ways… if you’re truelly free to choose which libraries/components you’ll use then yes, you define the rules and you really are in control. But if you have to comply with ignorant customer constraints it can sometimes be about as frustrating as driving your car through heavy, slow moving traffic

By: Tech Per

Tech Per — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:30:36 +0000

I am not sure why I like coding, though I suspect it has something to do with control. When coding, you are in a world, where you are in control. You make the machine do what you want it to. This is also why it is frustrating, when ones coding (occasionally), seems to suck

Maybe this is why I like driving a car too

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:43:29 +0000

I would like coding more if it paid better.
I dont know where all you guys live and how well you are paid compared to other occupations around you, but here in Australia, the pay is quite poor.

By: Davy Brion

Davy Brion — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:55:05 +0000

@Paul Anthony:

yup, those are great moments . It’s part of the whole “it’s challenging” thing… you come up against a problem, you try to figure it out and the eventual breakthrough is a very satisfying completion of the challenge

By: Davy Brion

Davy Brion — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:52:18 +0000

@zoned:

it usually just takes a bit of fresh air for me

By: zoned

zoned — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:13:29 +0000

Being ‘in the zone’ is great when you really get stuff done but getting off the zone is somehow frightening. It always takes a while to get a grip of reality again after an intense coding session

By: Veera

Veera — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:15:21 +0000

I like coding, because it pays me.

By: Paul Anthony

Paul Anthony — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:28:30 +0000

For me coding is enjoyable because it gives you plenty of “breakthough” moments, where you come up against a problem, then break through it. The result of seeing something work, gives me a “yay!” moment.

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By: prashant

prashant — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:36:13 +0000

Hi,

Good post and totally agree with you.

Thanks
Prashant
http://www.prashantjalasutram.blogspot.com/

By: Davy Brion

Davy Brion — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:54:52 +0000

if by ‘being in the zone’ you mean an intense coding session where you are extremely focused and you’re mind is going a mile a minute then yea

if not, please do explain

By: Michael Haszprunar

Michael Haszprunar — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:32:12 +0000

I fully agree with the list, coding is just fun and gaining knowledge at the same time.
The only thing that I miss here is: being in the zone (if you don’t knwo what this means: email me). But maybe it’s part of your “view into another world”?

By: Grant Palin

Grant Palin — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:37:05 +0000

Fully agree – the first three are especially true for me.

I do like the ongoing problem solving and learning new tools, techniques, and practices.

By: Lookman

Lookman — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:46:36 +0000

Cool, I totally agree with you.

Actually, I’m currently rewriting a layer in an application i wrote months back after i went through the projects and i found out, i can reduce some lines and increase performance.

I always find it difficult not to get my hands dirty with new stuffs, when am less busy.