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h1kigaeru • Edited

I would also add that we, programmers, do classify things into objects and break up something big in a lot of small pieces and then connect them between each other. We are good in Ran's test and that shows that we are good in abstraction thinking. Of course there's a lot of patterns and programmers often tend to follow them and imply one or another in their projects. However, programmers can encounter new problem, when they can't just get by those pattern. And it's time where coders apply their knowledge from different aspects to solve the problem, to come up with something new, they have never happen to do. If it's not creativity, then I have no idea what it is.