I find that often you’re right about enjoying things like puzzles, math problems, riddles, those little 3D wooden things, crosswords. It seems like a lot of programmers enjoy those things. Except for me. I hate most of those things yet I love programming.

Programming is a creative endeavor for me, whereas puzzles seem pointless for some reason. I finished the puzzle, now what? The same goes for computer games.

With programming I often have created something that didn’t exist a few minutes prior and that is such a joy.