What Programmers and Creatives Can Learn From Each Other

Coding can be easily dismissed by creatives as non-creative, but one only thinks that way if one has never really tried programming. When you find an elegant and simple solution to a difficult logical problem in a coding language, it is a feeling of such sublime bliss, that it rivals the feeling one gets from a eureka moment when creating art… If you make a mistake or if life throws you an error, smile! You just learned something. If you’re clever, you’ll build new ways of handling that situation in the future. That is how bugs become features.