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I would describe programming as a craft, which is a kind of art, but not a fine art. Craft means making useful objects with perhaps decorative touches. Fine art means making things purely for their beauty. [1]

• Is Programming Art?
• Art and Computer Programming
  Questions to GuidoVanRossum, AndyHunt, BjarneStroustrup, PaulGraham, and RichardStallman

I use the term craftsmanship because I believe writing software is a craft. I also believe that writing code is something well suited to an apprentice-journeyman-master model particularly when applied in an open source context. [2]

• TheArtOfComputerProgramming by DonaldEKnuth
  
  
• Programming a Picasso

I cannot think of a medium more pregnant with possibilities, more laden with powerful and beautiful abstractions, than algorithm design.
This is not a dry endeavor of mechanical activity. A good computer program is the result of a furious fight with the world of abstractions. A tussle that can and does result in beautiful creations. True works of art in my opinion...

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• Wiki:TipsForReadingCode

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• http://funcall.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-not-to-write-code.html

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• Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative by PeteMcBreen
• ThePragmaticProgrammer

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Becoming a good software developer involves a lot more than just learning to write programs. Software development is a craft, it blends science, engineering, mathematics, linguistics and art.

• Science is an important part of software development – you will spend a lot of your time thinking about cause and effect.
• Engineering tradeoffs happen all of the time – you want the application to be blazingly fast and to support hundreds of users over the Internet.
• Mathematics shows up in number crunching and conditional logic.
• Linguistics becomes important when you realize that other people have to be able to understand your application, both to be able to use it and to be able to improve on it.
• Art is the most important because great software is beautiful.

The craft of software development blends all of these in a unique and ever changing manner. Getting good at software development involves mastering the aesthetics of software.

taken from Ruby for the Nuby by PeteMcBreen

Apprenticeship

• http://www.rolemodelsoftware.com/moreAboutUs/publications/apprenticeshipInASoftwareStudio.php --Apprenticeship in a Software Studio
• http://butunclebob.com/ArticleS.MicahMartin.SoftwareApprenticeship
  
  
• Hello World - The Evolution of a Programmer