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Creativity & Innovation: Game-changers in Coding?

This week, we're diving into the essential qualities that define exceptional coders. Share your practical tips, inspiring stories, and invaluable insights to help our newbies cultivate these qualities and unlock their full coding potential. Together, let's empower the next generation of coding superstars. Today's quality is:

Creativity and Innovation

How do you nurture and stimulate your creativity when coding? Are there any specific techniques or approaches you employ?

Share an example of a time when your creative thinking and innovative ideas resulted in a unique solution or improved efficiency in a coding project.

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Calin Baenen

When coding I like to think ov the big picture and be ambitious?
I want to make a Rust version ov ParseJS that extends the functionality ov tokens in many ways that will provide the most flexible DX, so will I (try to) do it? Hell yeah!

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adriens

"Are there any specific techniques or approaches you employ?"

I use to listen and observe problems around me, I mean irl, or listen to people when they say :

  • "I could not do this because"
  • "I only I could"
  • "I only I knew"
  • "If it was possible to..."
  • "It would be cool if..."

... Than I start to create ideas to fix them... and then I learn skills to achieve these ideas.

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Jon Randy 🎖️

Ignore conventional wisdom. Think outside the box. Play. Experiment. Build things from scratch for fun.