June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
232 pages
8h 15m
English
Overview
Programming is a creative act. These techniques will help you maximize the power of creativity to improve your software and your satisfaction in creating it.
Inside The Creative Programmer you’ll discover:
In The Creative Programmer you’ll learn the processes and habits of highly creative individuals and discover how you can build creativity into your programming practice. This fascinating new book introduces the seven domains of creative problem solving and teaches practical techniques that apply those principles to software development.
Hand-drawn illustrations, reflective thought experiments, and brain-tickling example problems help you get your creative juices flowing—you’ll even be able to track your progress against a scientifically validated Creative Programming Problem Solving Test. Before you know it, you’ll be thinking up new and novel ways to tackle the big challenges of your projects.
About the Technology
Like composing music, starting a business, or designing a marketing campaign, programming is a creative activity. And just like technical skills, creativity can be learned and improved with practice! This thought-provoking book details practical methods to turn creativity into more effective problem solving, higher productivity, and better software.
About the Book
The Creative Programmer explores seven dimensions of creativity in software engineering—technical knowledge, collaboration, constraints, critical thinking, curiosity, a creative state of mind, and creative techniques. As you read, you’ll apply insights about creativity from other disciplines to the challenges of software development. Numerous relevant examples and exercises drive each lesson home. You’ll especially enjoy the unique Creative Programming Problem Solving Test that helps you assess how creative you’ve been with a programming task.
What's Inside
About the Reader
For programmers of all skill levels.
About the Author
Wouter Groeneveld is a software engineer and computer science education researcher at KU Leuven, where he researches the importance of creativity in software engineering.
Quotes
The Creative Programmer is a fantastic mix of engaging historical anecdotes, practical exercises, and extensive references to papers, books, and essays both in and outside of programming…. My own copy has now been filled with pages of scribbles and notes on which I could immediately apply Wouter’s lessons, a sign that his exercises are truly engaging and encouraging!
- From the Foreword by Dr. Felienne Hermans, Professor of Computer Science Education, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, author of The Programmer’s Brain
Beautifully written and utterly compelling. I love the research, the insight, and the sheer joy Wouter conveys in his writing.
- Daniel Terhorst-North, Dan North & Associates
Inside The Creative Programmer you’ll discover:
- The seven dimensions of creativity in software engineering
- The scientific understanding of creativity and how it translates to programming
- Actionable advice and thinking exercises that will make you a better programmer
- Innovative communication skills for working more efficiently on a team
- Creative problem-solving techniques for tackling complex challenges
In The Creative Programmer you’ll learn the processes and habits of highly creative individuals and discover how you can build creativity into your programming practice. This fascinating new book introduces the seven domains of creative problem solving and teaches practical techniques that apply those principles to software development.
Hand-drawn illustrations, reflective thought experiments, and brain-tickling example problems help you get your creative juices flowing—you’ll even be able to track your progress against a scientifically validated Creative Programming Problem Solving Test. Before you know it, you’ll be thinking up new and novel ways to tackle the big challenges of your projects.
About the Technology
Like composing music, starting a business, or designing a marketing campaign, programming is a creative activity. And just like technical skills, creativity can be learned and improved with practice! This thought-provoking book details practical methods to turn creativity into more effective problem solving, higher productivity, and better software.
About the Book
The Creative Programmer explores seven dimensions of creativity in software engineering—technical knowledge, collaboration, constraints, critical thinking, curiosity, a creative state of mind, and creative techniques. As you read, you’ll apply insights about creativity from other disciplines to the challenges of software development. Numerous relevant examples and exercises drive each lesson home. You’ll especially enjoy the unique Creative Programming Problem Solving Test that helps you assess how creative you’ve been with a programming task.
What's Inside
- The scientific understanding of creativity and how it translates to programming
- Advice and exercises that will help you become a creative programmer
- Innovative communication skills for working more efficiently on a team
- Creative problem-solving techniques for tackling complex challenges
About the Reader
For programmers of all skill levels.
About the Author
Wouter Groeneveld is a software engineer and computer science education researcher at KU Leuven, where he researches the importance of creativity in software engineering.
Quotes
The Creative Programmer is a fantastic mix of engaging historical anecdotes, practical exercises, and extensive references to papers, books, and essays both in and outside of programming…. My own copy has now been filled with pages of scribbles and notes on which I could immediately apply Wouter’s lessons, a sign that his exercises are truly engaging and encouraging!
- From the Foreword by Dr. Felienne Hermans, Professor of Computer Science Education, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, author of The Programmer’s Brain
Beautifully written and utterly compelling. I love the research, the insight, and the sheer joy Wouter conveys in his writing.
- Daniel Terhorst-North, Dan North & Associates
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.