Life is all about dreaming and coding is all about imagination,true?

Question

Is imagination part of coding?

Answer 1

Yes, how can you develop a code if you cant think of a project

Answer 2

For me, it is. There is so many ways of going about the exact same problem, so logically there has to be some element of imagination in how you decide to resolve a particular problem. Imagination is how new things are created rather than always having what was before. Look at the world around us. It's nothing more than dreams manifested. It was a dream and imagination that brought this box and page that I'm talking to you from. Without imagination, we would have been content with simply surviving and nothing more. As long as us humans are involved in anything, imagination will leak into it.

Also, I'm a game dev too, so that allows more imagination than what I've been use to doing in the corporate world. Corp stuff was fun when I was originally creating everything, but it's long been created and improved, that I'm bored out of my mind. That's what has been pushing me in other directions with programming, and in directions that allow a more creative approach to it.

What is your thoughts on it all?