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The Creative Programmer
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The Creative Programmer

by Wouter Groeneveld
June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
232 pages
8h 15m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from The Creative Programmer

4 Constraints

This chapter covers

  • A taxonomy of beneficial constraints
  • How to deal with intrinsic and imposed constraints
  • Leveraging self-imposed constraints to reach the creative sweet spot
  • The effects of naivety on creativity

The whispering whizz of mowing scythes startled sleepy birds nesting near the ancient Nile Delta. Workers harvested the papyrus plant quickly and efficiently, before the unbearable heat of the Egyptian sun turned the labor into an even bigger nightmare. The fibers of these plants were to be converted into a valuable writing material similar to paper by expert papyrus makers.

In the 2nd century bc, King Ptolemy V promptly ordered craftsmen to stop exporting one of their treasured national products. The reason was as simple ...

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