Developers are modern day artists whose masterpieces are not hung on walls but stretched out thin on web servers all over the world, yes that is very poetic, but I really try to look at developers as artists and puzzle solvers. To become better developers your skill-set must include creativity and problem solving skills and of course a artistic touch.

Writing a piece of code is an ever evolving process and never ending, its a puzzle. Let’s think of it in modern terms, writing a code is like solving a level in Angry Birds, your primary objective is to get it done and working, i.e. solve the level and go on. But it does not stop there, you often do not get it perfect on the first try, so you need to go back and do more work on it, make it perform better, use less memory, its like going back to that level in Angry Birds and trying to get a 3 star rating.

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