[thinkingemote]

Interesting. Does programming use this creative language part of the brain or more mathematical?

I have found that some songs with English lyrics as being distracting but not as much as people talking on the telephone in an office space

[jamra]

Programming has different angles. There’s the social aspect of being consciencous and seeing what your junior teammates are thinking in order to help them out. There’s the high level logic of how your app connects together, how it may scale in the future and how you’re going to maintain it. I believe that is more creative or perhaps a combination of creativity and experience.

Then there is the notion of doing hardcore coding. Maybe that’s more logic or a combination of logic and pattern recognition.

[brianberns]

Why are we assuming that language = creative, and mathematics = not creative?

[thinkingemote]

Well the article dealt with language, lyrics in music.

[xxxdarrenxxx]

Neither, there has been research done of people programming, and they measured the most activity to be in areas related to short term (working) memory.

Also as a 10+ year musician, I prefer programming (or any task that needs focus) without any sound. Listening to music, makes me noticeably more relaxed in a "bad way", and I definitely can't get into the nitty gritty of an actual problem, with anywhere close of a hyperfocus "shit is real" kind of attitude.

Music can get me in the mood, but when I get there and the music is off, it's 5 hours later and I wrote a figurative 1000 lines of working code.