This document discusses the connections between coding and music. It encourages coders to be creative, passionate, communicate well, keep things simple, iterate and refactor. It also quotes Donald Knuth comparing computer programming to composing poetry or music, seeing it as an art form in an aesthetic sense. The experience of writing a program can be like composing music, according to Knuth.

1. Coding & Music
Passion and Profession
„The last good thing written in C
was Franz Schubert‘s Symphony No. 9“

2. Four Sided Cube

3. Be creative

4. Be passionate

5. Communicate

6. Be pragmatic

7. Keep it simple

8. Iterate

9. Refactor

10. What feels best
about it?

11. Going live!

12. „When I speak about computer programming
as an art, I am thinking primarily of it as an art
form, in an aesthetic sense. ... My feeling is that
when we prepare a program, the experience
can be just like composing poetry or music“
Donald E. Knuth