Creative coding - why "doing nothing" doesn't mean you're not working

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1. Creative Coding Why doing nothing doesn't mean you're not working

2. This then is programming, both a tar pit in which

   many efforts have floundered and a creative activity with joys and woes all its own - Fred brooks, The mythical man month

3. Outline •What is creativity •The right mind •Why should I

   care? •Put this on a post-it

4. What is creativity? Creating something new of value

5. What is creativity?

6. The creative process

7. How the brain works

8. Your dual CPU-brain

9. Linear mode

10. Rich mode

11. How can I use this? • Intuitivity is an expert

    trait • Pattern matching is a spatial ability - code faster • Holistic and analogic - useful when designing • Learn by synthesis • Analogy and metaphors • Pair programming

12. Spatial

13. Synthetic Prototyping Unit testing

14. Analogic xdebug.scream Type: boolean, Default value: 0, Introduced in Xdebug

    2.1 If this setting is 1, then Xdebug will disable the @ (shut-up) operator so that notices, warnings and errors are no longer hidden

15. L-mode & R-mode

16. Creative with test data

17. Easter eggs

18. Easter eggs cont. • PHP Credits http://www.php.net/?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C10000 • ↑ ↑

    ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A start • Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol ◦ 418 I'm a teapot

19. Summary • metaphors • learn by synthesis • Have fun

20. Thinking in progress

21. Sources http://pragprog.com/titles/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning - Andy Hunt The master and his Emisary

    - Iain McGilchrist http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/97_Things_Every_Programmer_Should_Know http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_Drafts_Model Mythical man month - Frederick P. Brooks Jr. http://lifedev.net/2008/07/programmer-creativity-boost/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness Dan roam - back of the napkin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuA_yz7aTo0 http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/09/the-difference-between-art-and-design/ http://www.tv2.no/nyheter/okonomi/oslo-kommune-ba-leverandoerer-kontakte-donald-duck-3494844.html http://www.cenqua.com/pairon/index.html (chair) http://www.etftrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/post-it-note.jpg (post-it) http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RKpjMnzcQZg/ShrXvR-ZZwI/AAAAAAAAA6o/qCPFxmusPL0/s400/everyday-things.jpg (teapot) http://onward.justia.com/2005/07/20/google-maps-goes-extraterrestrial/ (moon cheese) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phpunit-Logo.gif (PHP Unit logo) https://joind.in/4952