It is highly stimulating intellectual effort though. Sometimes I sit down and spend hours just thinking about the best way to do something. It's some kind of philosophy: the abstractions we create reflect the way we understand things. To write good code, we must study the computer science and the problem domain itself.
Without this, it's just boring mechanical work. Once the project has been figured out it ceases to be interesting. Some of my projects are unfinished because I can't justify spending more time on them even though I know exactly what must be done.
It is highly stimulating intellectual effort though. Sometimes I sit down and spend hours just thinking about the best way to do something. It's some kind of philosophy: the abstractions we create reflect the way we understand things. To write good code, we must study the computer science and the problem domain itself.
Without this, it's just boring mechanical work. Once the project has been figured out it ceases to be interesting. Some of my projects are unfinished because I can't justify spending more time on them even though I know exactly what must be done.