How To Get Out of Developer's Block?

Midnight Thunder writes "I have spent the past six months working on a software project, and while I can come up with ideas, I just can't seem to sit down in front of the computer to code. I sit there and I just can't concentrate. I don't know whether this is akin to writer's block, but it feels like it. Have any other Slashdotters run into this and if so how did you get out of it? It is bothering me since the project has ground to a halt and I really want to get started again. I am the sole developer on the project, if that makes a difference."

Comments

Oh please, drop the programers are artists b.s.

[jotaeleemeese]

Look pal, programming is a technical trade.

You follow some steps in a certain sequence in order to get the work done. It is like lying bricks or driving an excavator.

Certainly a degree of creativity is required, but please don't fuck mention writers block the day true artists are dying, it is frankly disrespectful.

You don't code in front of the computer. Programming involves as the last step to transfer the results of your work into a file to be processed by the software in your computer.

Programming is done with pen and paper, designing an algorithm, writing pseudo code, checking limit cases to see how your algorithms will behave.

Once you have done tons of work *thinking* and have arrived to a solution, then you sit down in front of a computer and transcribe what is written on paper to the computer. The last stage of programming is being a typist, so if you are sitting in front of your computer doing nothing then you simply are not a proper programmer.

If you are starting with nothing in front of your computer I think you have to enrol in some proper programming courses. Pronto.

And please don't bring this "writers block" nonsense again. Mario Vargas Llosa may have writers block, or Tomi Morrison, or Gunther Grass.

A programmer does not have writers block, a programmer that does not program is just a lazy fuck or complete unprepared for his trade, so stop the lame excuses and get coding.