What do you like best about coding....??

[LeeSalter]

Discuss...

[mar_zim]

it gives me boring day.

[LeeSalter]

I love it cos it means I get to solve problems everyday! Very satisfying when you get something to work!

[mendhak]

Psychologically, coding allows an individual to experience the power of creation and/or evolution through logic, and therefore appeals to most of us.

[mar_zim]

and it gives more confusion's to us coders. Confused on how things really works.

[Lil Ms Squirrel]

When a I write a damned good piece of code, it gives me the opportunity to pull my shirt over my head and run around the office in the style of a crazed football (soccer for our American buddies) player.

Of course, the guys in my office appreciate my wonderful coding skills too

[wossname]

It's an escape from my miserable life. Computers are easier to communicate with than people.

On a lighter note: its a buzz to finally kill the bug that has been irritating you for 2 months, or the loop that has been taking up too many clock cycles. ast week I added 1 line of code and accelerated execution time of one algorithm by 30%. Can't beat that for satisfaction. I know how geeky that sounds but that's what I am. Better than real life anyhow.

[Lil Ms Squirrel]

Now I've got my more serious head on, one of the things I find most satisfying is helping others out. I started life as a primary school teacher then via a rather long and convoluted route (and painful -- filled with blood, sweat and tears) ended up becoming a .NET trainer.

Not only do I find my own coding satisfying, but I also find helping others to get their code to work very satisfying. Community coding (like we do here on VBForums) is great. I can't abide programmers who hold their code to their chests and won't help other people out. Probably cos they're not as good as they pretend to be.

Long live VBForums

[LeeSalter]

I can't abide programmers who hold their code to their chests and won't help other people out.

Couldn't agree more! here! here!

Unless of course, you're app is sooooooo good that it's a marketing opportunity!

[wossname]

I don't trust VBF with my own code now. Someone APPARENTLY ALLEGEDLY had a load of code stolen and the ALLEGED thief is APPARENTLY ALLEGEDLY threatening to sell it as their own.

I'd never upload the code for anything I plan to sell!! You can't trust anyone. It's sad but true.

Although I fully agree with the Open Source movement, the hacker ethic personified

[LeeSalter]

I'd never upload the code for anything I plan to sell!!

Ever sold any applications Wossy?

I've got a coupld of good ideas and some working prototypes that would have a market.

What's the first step in trying to sell them? (assume that the app is ready, bug-free, looks great etc etc!)..

[szlamany]

I've had my own programming shop for 25 years - used to have a partner - he split almost 10 years ago. Prior to all that I coded for a company, that sold out to another company and kept getting promises of this-and-that and realities of nothing!

Since I've been on my own, having proprietary rights to the product I develop is the most important thing to me. I've become a business expert in K-12 school admin, municipalities, labor unions and health insurance processing. That business expertise is probably more valuable to my "business" than my ability to code - as I can walk into a discussion of some problem at one of my client sites and come up with the ultimate solution - that's always a rush!

Since I am a niche coder, productivity is great - I can really quickly produce the product that's required.

I also really like to teach - and find that I am always employing 2 or 3 high school students and giving them a feel for what the real world of VB and SQL production is all about.

[RobDog888]

Its probably already been paraphrased in a previous post, but I like the challenge of solving a problem on both, the
bug solution level and also on the application solution level.

I had automated a terminal emulator program to do data entry/report generation for a client. When I got it
finished and showed the client he was so happy that he high-fived me! I saved him the budget of an employee
and decreased each job completion from a matter of months to just a day or two max.

I like the satisfaction of helping people/companies with their problems and creating programs that will, hopefully, be used
for years and programming allows you to be very creative and yet logical. If you wouldn't code for free then your
in the wrong business.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Painting pictures with logic.

Programming is the purest intellectual pursuit out there. DB front ends put the bread on the table, and nobody cares how clever they are, but it's still a blast.

[Hack]

I enjoy the fact that my job is to build tools that help others do their jobs. Few things are more professionally rewarding than to walk by someone's cube and seeing them use an app that you wrote in order to better perform whatever it is that they were hired to do.

[Valleysboy1978]

I enjoy the fact that my job is to build tools that help others do their jobs. Few things are more professionally rewarding than to walk by someone's cube and seeing them use an app that you wrote in order to better perform whatever it is that they were hired to do.

I'd agree with that. It makes all the tantrum's worthwhile

[RhythmAddict]

There really are a ton of reasons...but before i get to the good stuff, sometimes it's just downright frustrating and i want to slam my head into my 19" monitor while it's on fire. That being said, I like to try new languages/techniques/everything as much as possible...(c# at the moment)

but it's really cool to actually design an entire logical flow and anticipate everything, adding features and making people go "wow, cool" it's just neat...but then again ive thought everything about computers was neat since about 14 (im sure im not the only person) i have only been a professional programmer for about 10 months...and i definitely like the constant challenges. in fact, i hate my job when i've got nothing to do coughlikerightnowcough.

[wiccaan]

I love the fact that when you find a program online and its only a demo and costs like 50 bucks that you dont have, you can make your own little version of it. At that point your happy that it works and that it didnt cost you 50 bucks to use

[Ecniv]

Psychologically, coding allows an individual to experience the power of creation and/or evolution through logic, and therefore appeals to most of us.

Hear Hear!!

I do get a kick of creating something from nothing... and A BOFH complex when the end users complain hehehe

It's an escape from my miserable life. Computers are easier to communicate with than people.

On a lighter note: its a buzz to finally kill the bug that has been irritating you for 2 months, or the loop that has been taking up too many clock cycles. ast week I added 1 line of code and accelerated execution time of one algorithm by 30%. Can't beat that for satisfaction. I know how geeky that sounds but that's what I am. Better than real life anyhow.

True true!! Does satisfy me to solve the damned thing or make it faster