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Coding can be addictive because sometimes what you do helps someone else do their job or helps a person. I personally like SOBE's they are my new energy drink with caffeine boost while coding. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
jeffery
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I've given up three times this year already!
more seriously, I get a genuine physical high when I complete some interesting bit of code.
it's a bit like smoking that way, I think. Most of the time smokers just smoke, without real pleasure or enjoyment, to fulfil the craving., But once in a while, there's that smoke that just feels goooood. Maybe after a meal - maybe after a coffee. Maybe the first one in the morning on a day off work.
Same with the coding. Some days I'm just on auto pilot doing it for 'the man'.
Other days I'm getting such a buzz that I keep going and get a real buzz.
Of course, there are bad trips too (VS2010 is the dirty-needle of WPF addiction)
But when I did give it up (to be a manager) I just didn't enjoy it - and still coded after work.
I seriously would give up booze before coding.
Probably.
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When time stops, and only the code matters.
You hear a distant smoke-alarm and screams.
Only 966 build errors; you introduced them whilst "refactoring". The screaming stops and there's frantic knocking on your door, as you reach 9 build errors.
WTF? An exception on line 0, column 0? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Coding actually is a really addictive thing for the new programmers. As you gain knowledge and continue your work, you gain control our yourself and then you can say "I can leave it anytime I want".
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Coding is not Addictive. We are in Love with coding it is not our addiction. It is our Love. Hence became part of our Life. It can make us feel every emotion of life - Anger, Fear, Happiness, Satisfaction, Sadness etc. Just like a great Partner.
So Happy Coding.
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Almost a textbook description of a drug :P
And yes, i'm hooked as-well^^
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I would say not much more addictive than chocolate, but... I enjoy writing software since I was kid, and for some time I get paid to do what I love.
So the question is why I would like to stop something that is both enjoyable and profitable? 
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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Highly Addictive. Especially with all the new technologies / platforms, Integration, etc. It certainly helps if one enjoys coding, like I do.
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I had to give it up cold turkey in order to pass my degree course. I taught myself assembler and it was taking too much of my time. I had withdrawal pains for ten years or more, until Sinclair brought out his MK14 computer kit, based on a National Semiconductor SC/MP. Although painfully slow, it gave me some relief!
Ian
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As a kid, I loved programming, it was like magic.
After many years on the front lines, it's not so magical anymore. If I won the lottery I'd walk away in a heartbeat.
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Quote: If I won the lottery I'd walk away in a heartbeat.
Yeah! Me too!
...except I might just work a little on a couple of home projects I have going - but I would only use C#... and maybe a little JavaScript... and jQuery of course, I'd have to do some jQuery and jQuery-ui and jQuery++ but no more than that. Definitely. That would be it!
...although... I've always meant to go back to the Rexx Interpreter I wrote once (actually twice - for two different companies) and re-work it to be more efficient and to add the object orientation stuff that is popular in Rexx circles these days.
NO VB! No, no no; never again! That I could stick to.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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StatementTerminator wrote: After many years on the front lines, it's not so magical anymore. If I won the lottery I'd walk away in a heartbeat.
Same here. I'm ready for a change in life. It pays the bills. I don't *hate* it, but I don't stay up until 4AM anymore coding.
Jeremy Falcon
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Any time I want to stop eating, that is (I write code for a living). 
modified 26-Aug-14 10:45am.
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... that's addictive to me. I've found over the last few years that I'm able to put down the keyboard at home and especially on vacation. It used to be that I would at least think about programming if I couldn't get to a keyboard. But now, I find learning new languages is most rewarding and addictive and I guess secondarily, programming using them by going over tutorials and such.
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Yes , I agree
Programming is about :
Learning by doing.
Understanding different systems,platforms, frameworks and architectures.
A Process of problem solving.
Brain exercise.
Improving people's efficiency and standard of living.
Electronic projects may give the same meaning but I probably get my hands dirty by soldering , making PCBs, flying wires ,analyze the problem with oscilloscope and dealing with burnt electronic components.
Programming is a relatively clean job.
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I found that I code was addictive during my adolescence up to my late 20's. But lately I've been feeling like I'm getting bored with it. Maybe now because I'm not learning anything new and working with the same dull enterprise apps as always...
I think a need something stronger 
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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I got there when I turned 50. I took up the piano for something stronger.
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There is no way coding is addictive! I never want to stop programming. 
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ITIOFD: I voted yes.
But, what I would like to have seen asked is:
Is programming: (multiple choices allowed)
1. An art
2. A craft
3. A skill
4. A science
5. A special form of mentation distinct from logical thinking, puzzle-solving
6. A form of consciouness
cheers, Bill
“I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.” Abd-Ar Rahman III, Caliph of Cordoba, circa 950CE.
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BillWoodruff wrote: Is programming: (multiple choices allowed)
1. An art
Flowerbox comments?
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BillWoodruff wrote: 3. A skill
That's all it is, really, not so different from plumbing or carpentry, except that plumbers and carpenters use more math than most programmers. We're virtual construction workers, no need to make it into anything fancier than that.
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StatementTerminator wrote: We're virtual construction workers, no need to make it into anything fancier than that.
Speak for yourself, mate!
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0 - All of the below.
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The Question with the subsequent Statement is is conflicting such that the answer, when it negates the former, it affirms the latter.
The question posed is:
Is coding addictive?
It is then followed with grayed-text reading:
I, personally, can give it up at any time I wanted to.
Finally, two mutually exclusive answers are presented ~ "Yes" & "No".
OK, if coding is addictive, the answer must be "Yes". However, of the grayed-text statement of "I, personally, can give it up at any time I wanted to.", they can't affirm ("Yes") they can stop at any time, for addicts are statistically and historically proven they can't stop their addiction.
In short the answer presents opposites to the question/statement combo.
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