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by gandolfinmyhead 3519 days ago
People who say programming is boring belong to one or more of the following groups

- people who haven't explored the concept enough, which may be a symptom of a larger issue possibly and most likely the one below

- people who are just in for the money and are trying to convince themselves otherwise

- people who don't know how to use atomic concepts to make more interesting concepts because they lack creativity and imagination (whatever these terms in comp sci domain)

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I'm learning an instrument over last few years. To be honest it's super boring to practice the same notes over and over again. Then again all the skills I learned I learned through boring repetitions.

So if someone tells me programming is boring I'll just nod. It takes too many repetitions to finally start to appreciate something.

How do you know that? Have you exhaustively categorized the full range of experience of programmers?