—— In order to do that, it’s helpful to search for algorithmic and structural components to practice mentally manipulating.
The basic core of creative algorithm design to me seems the ability to imagine all of the features that programming languages offer, used in unbounded combination. Like practicing musical scales, it could make sense to imagine each feature used in combination with each other, in each way it might be used. There are of course some combinations that are far, far more useful than others: but we want this to be easy and quick to identify. —- My situation is a little unique in that I tend to get “triggered”, quotes unneeded perhaps, by components and combinations that have been crux in projects I have worked on at certain times. For me, practicing the triggering components and combinations is possibly most difficult and also most useful. Luckily for developing useful notes, these are both numerous and generally very useful for multiple things. Such as graphs, I have a big inhibition around anything to do with graphs.
