Comments on: Software Engineer vs. Code Artist

By: David

David — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:23:30 +0000

Sorry, but this guy is a code artist
http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178

By: Code Craftsman, Code Warrior, or Just Sandwich Artist

Code Craftsman, Code Warrior, or Just Sandwich Artist — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:53:34 +0000

[...] programming is an art, a science, or both. Recently, I have heard the word Code Craftsman and even Code Artist used by folks in the blogosphere. On the one hand, there is little argument that written code can [...]

By: Father Linux

Father Linux — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:22:00 +0000

The thoughts of Sandwich Artist provoked by this post drove me insane and I had to write a blog post:

I do not think Programmers are Artists and I think that the analogy is horrible for productivity.

http://educatedconfusion.com/2.....ch-artist/

By: robdanet

robdanet — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:35:33 +0000

I agree with the fact that nowadays the word art has assumed a very vague signification and that not every thing hanging in today galleries deserve to be called an art piece. At the same time I believe that wherever there is creativity involved you can end up finding same art, especially if an artistic product it’s what you want to achieve . Also with the versatility and the simplicity that many platforms, libraries and tool-kits today came with (e.g. Processing, OpenFramework,…) , it is not hard for an artist to express himself using code like any other medium.
I don’t think coders are rewarded only for quality and usefulness. De facto out there is plenty of those earning a living creating not-useful code with same kind of aesthetic. And people is calling it just (Computational) ART.

By: Music, Musicians and Software Development |

Music, Musicians and Software Development | — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:59:29 +0000

[...] would like to think that we should not be so pragmatic as to look at software development as being”solving a problem in order to start [...]

By: Software Engineering Is NOT Dead! | Software Artist

Software Engineering Is NOT Dead! | Software Artist — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:48:17 +0000

[...] has been a lot of controversy about that, some people arguing it’s more of an art, others saying it’s science, yet others that it’s more like craftsmanship. At the end of the day, the only fact that [...]

By: Angus McDonald

Angus McDonald — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:40:54 +0000

Piffle … software development is more craft than either art or engineering.

Craftsmen (craftfolk for the PCers) solve problems with beautiful pieces of functional design, but they do not engineer nor design (in the traditional sense) but rather do both.

Software development is its own thing, but for most people* it is much more craft than anything else.

* Designing certain types of systems requires a far more engineering approach (e.g. Google’s load balancing software, game engines), whilst others are more art than anything else (e.g. actual games).

By: Adron

Adron — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:24:28 +0000

“I disagree I’m pretty sure the Sandwich artists at Subway are the real deal..”

I agree to disagree also.

By: ScubZero

ScubZero — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:58:43 +0000

I feel you are making a fundamental oversimplification of art. Case in point, the assertion that ‘artists can create subjective works without any repercussions’ and that in particular ‘Musicians are artists that can have free spirited impromptu ‘jam sessions’’.

Musicians in a jam session are under EXTREME constraints as to what they can and cannot do musically. Everything from the time and meter, the rhythm which keeps the various instruments in sync, the harmonic structures they play over, the melodic scales that are used are all inheritently mathematical structures which strictly confine what a musician can and cannot do. In fact the difference between music and noise, is exactly that fact that the members of a band are not all individually creating ’subjective works without any repercussions’. The whole ‘art’ of music is in the expression/communication of emotion with sound while being held constrained to a very strict guidelines…

That all being said, I dont believe software developers are artists so much as craftsmen.

By: Max Pool

Max Pool — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:59:58 +0000

Ahhh…very good reference Eric.

The other book that comes to mind is Software Creativity 2.0