| This is just some nicely worded problem solving methodology. There's no mind of an artist (by this I think author meant creative, but not logical). You have a problem. You'll solve it using programming. Yes, there exists a problem solving methodology, and yes, it means you might put your pencil aside and think. But it's much better to use very well written methodologies of problem solving instead of trying to come up with your mumbojumbobehappyifitworks. Methodology is logical, it's an algorithm for problem solving that works really well on simple problems. On more complicated ones it helps you get closer to the solution but when all of the methods were tried then there's that creative jump you have to make, by either solving it after thinking (employing creativity) or inventing new methods that will bring you even closer to the solution (employing creativity, again). It's quite easy for programmers to incorporate problem solving methodologies in their workflow because most of the time their problem can be defined in some way. On the other hand, a painter, a musician, a writer, their problems are hardly defined if not non-existent. That's why it's hard to self-evaluate, it's hard to see if you are making any progress, and then when something successfully mainstream happens we cherish their remarkable creativity. |