Oreilly – The Creative Programmer, Video Edition 2023-6

The Creative Programmer, Video Edition. This course emphasizes the principle that programming is a creative process and provides techniques to enhance creativity in software development and increase personal satisfaction from creating software products. This course explores seven aspects of creativity in software engineering, including technical knowledge, collaboration, constraints, critical thinking, curiosity, creative mindset, and problem-solving techniques. By combining academic discussions and practical exercises, it helps you apply creativity to coding and find innovative solutions to complex challenges. It also teaches effective communication skills for teamwork and creative problem-solving methods. Using practical examples, illustrative images, and standardized tests, you can measure your progress in solving programming problems and develop new ideas for your projects. This course demonstrates that creativity, like technical skills, can be cultivated with practice and can lead to improved software quality and increased productivity.

What you will learn:

• The scientific understanding of creativity and how to translate it into programming
• Tips and exercises to help you become a creative programmer
• Innovative communication skills to work more effectively in a team
• Creative problem-solving techniques to tackle complex challenges

Who is this course suitable for?

• Programmers of all skill levels.

Course details

• Publisher: Oreilly
• Instructor: Wouter Groeneveld
• Training level: Beginner to advanced
• Training duration: 9 hours and 9 minutes

Course topics

• Chapter 1. The creative road ahead
• Chapter 1. Why creativity?
• Chapter 1. Different levels of creativity
• Chapter 1. A road map to becoming more creative
• Chapter 1. The structure of the following chapters
• Chapter 2. Technical knowledge
• Chapter 2. Gathering knowledge
• Chapter 2. Internalizing knowledge
• Chapter 2. Acting on knowledge
• Chapter 2. A workflow example
• Chapter 2. Summary
• Chapter 3. Communication
• Chapter 3. Collective geography
• Chapter 3. Creative work in time
• Chapter 3. When creative flow is impeded
• Chapter 3. Summary
• Chapter 4. Constraints
• Chapter 4. Intrinsic constraints
• Chapter 4. Imposed constraints
• Chapter 4. Self-imposed constraints
• Chapter 4. Hitting that sweet spot
• Chapter 4. Working with constraints in practice
• Chapter 4. Summary
• Chapter 5. Critical thinking
• Chapter 5. The creative process
• Chapter 5. Creativity is the means, not the goal
• Chapter 5. Common critical thinking fallacies
• Chapter 5. Too much self-criticism
• Chapter 5. Why others’ critical thinking matters
• Chapter 5. Summary
• Chapter 6. Curiosity
• Chapter 6. Growing wonder and wanderlust
• Chapter 6. Staying on the curious course
• Chapter 6. From curiosity to motivation
• Chapter 6. Multipotentiality
• Chapter 6. Serendipitous discoveries
• Chapter 6. About having fun
• Chapter 6. Summary
• Chapter 7. Creative state of mind
• Chapter 7. The flow of deep work
• Chapter 7. Interrupt!
• Chapter 7. Triggering creative insights
• Chapter 7. A corporate creative state of mind
• Chapter 7. Summary
• Chapter 8. Creative techniques
• Chapter 8. A selection: The artist’s toolbox
• Chapter 8. A selection: The writer’s toolbox
• Chapter 8. A selection: The programmer’s toolbox
• Chapter 8. Summary
• Chapter 9. Final thoughts on creativity
• Chapter 9. On the evolving perspective of creativity
• Chapter 9. When not to be creative
• Chapter 9. Further reading

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