Questions tagged [flow]
Use this tag for software engineering questions about the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.
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What is the proper diagram to describe an event subscriber final graph?
I'm working on a microservice application and I need to describe the complete execution graph of a specific event being published, where each node in the graph is a specific microservice subscription ...
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App Design - Engagement Type selected at beginning, or Radio buttons mid-request?
I am building an app wherein a user will be requesting one of three engagement types:
Appointment (no SLA)
Consult (2hr SLA)
Emergency (10mins SLA)
We are considering two different scenarios for ...
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What is the name of "an IF-ELSE expression that returns a value"? [closed]
Some programming languages allow conditional value assignments that look like
x = (IF condition THEN a ELSE b)
My search-fu is failing me: how do we call such statements in the jargon of ...
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How to you achieve flow in web programming? [closed]
I really like programming simple things, like solutions for Project Euler, where you can concentrate, write an algorithm, instantly execute, test, verify and change the program until it works. Even ...
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How can you achieve and maintain flow while pair programming?
Flow is a concept introduced by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; in short, it means to get into the "zone". You feel immersed in your task, focused; the task can be difficult but challenging at the same time. ...
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How can I get into "programmer mind" more quickly and more often? [duplicate]
There's a workflow I'm working on. It's so far been web forms filling databases with occasional writing configuration scripts for analysis instruments instruments, and I've written it all, in Perl, ...
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How to enter flow experience for SW development? [closed]
What are your strategies to improve the flow experience when doing work?
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