The Like/Hate Thread

[Anzekay]

Designing programs requires significant creative ability.

Meer is right, but it is a significantly different sort of creative ability to say, designing something of a visual or aural artistic form, or designing something as an engineer, or designing a game.

Creative ability is really a very varied term these days.

That said I think Sage was referring to a less abstract form of creativeness (I.E something more directly tangible than code -> form), which is accurate enough and a totally fair reason to find the idea of learning code difficult/uninteresting.

I am in a similar boat. I have a very strong math/science background, and a solid grasp on at least the function of programming. But the process of writing code itself is something that I am unlikely to ever get my head to any useful degree. Code and I just don't agree.

I'm just glad that my line of study is something that is mostly arts-focused, but with a solid lump of the sciences in there too. A nice share of both technical skill and applied theory. It's fun, satisfying and has loads of applications (but I do want to go into game design and animation, of course, if I can).