9 Final thoughts on creativity

This chapter covers

  • Creativity as an attainable skill, not a preset one
  • Different perceptions of creativity based on experience
  • When not to be creative
  • Further reading suggestions

We started out this creative adventure with the premise of awakening your inner homo faber. By investing in technical knowledge, communication, constraints, critical thinking, curiosity, a creative state of mind, and creative techniques, I guarantee that you will gradually progress toward becoming a Creative Programmer. Yet one of the hardest quests is yet to come: putting theory into practice. That is something you’ll have to undertake by yourself. Roadblocks will appear to test your curiosity and persistence. I hope I’ve inspired you ...

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