How does your mind work?

[doodab]

I don't really visualise them. numbers just are. Complex ones are my favourites.

[tractor]

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Nope. I just have a subconscious running commentary in my head (it was the voices, m'lud). When coding I go into a sort of meditative state and it takes over. That's why constant interruptions do my nut in. Every time the PM pings me an IM, I lose it, post on CUK for a bit (she IMs me a lot!) then have to find the zone again. Music helps, although I don't actively listen to it, it just drowns out the crap.

I'm hopeless with names, and have recently tried the visualisation technique where you picture something on the person related to the name - and that seems to work, although I suspect it's more by consciously committing the name to memory than actually by picturing Brian Cox with two willies.

I get like that too once requirements reach critical mass and you go into solution mode. Trick is not to go off solutioning before you are ready And music is a great barrier to irrelevancies

[VectraMan]

Complex ones are my favourites.

Complex numbers are half imagined.

I hate the way people think programming is in any way related to maths. It's not. Programming is like driving, or walking, or typing - I know how to do it because I've had lots of practice, and just do it. I don't have to think that often.