The Psychology of Programming

From DevX: An article describing

programming in the creative terms that it deserves.

“Writing code is an act of creativity. It isn’t science and it isn’t

engineering, although programmers are happy to apply science and

engineering to the creative process, when possible. Therefore to be a

programmer one has to be highly creative. This is one of the reasons

programmers are happier working on new projects rather than

maintenance projects. It isn’t just that they don’t want to get buried

in the filth of the past (although that’s part of it); maintenance

doesn’t offer them the opportunity to create.