Brainstorming
Brainstorming is an ideation technique for generating and exploring multiple ideas before organizing or evaluating them.
A Pythonic Adventure: From Python basics to a working web app
Brainstorming is a group ideation technique that encourages collecting many ideas before evaluating them.
- How it is used
- Uses open idea collection to imagine future features for a collaborative project.
- How deep it goes
- Explains the no-criticism rule and delayed discussion, but stops short of providing a formal prioritization process.
- Examples
- Uses coffee-shop accounts, promotions, reports, voice commands, robotics, and face recognition as brainstorming prompts.
- What you can do after
- Practice/perform: Collect many ideas without immediate criticism, record them, and evaluate them afterward.
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The Creative Programmer
Brainstorming is a method for generating many ideas through unconstrained or lightly constrained ideation before evaluation.
- How it is used
- Applies lightly constrained ideation to uncover assumptions, generate alternatives, and overcome obstacles during programming.
- How deep it goes
- Explains prompts, individual and group exercises, and their rationale, without detailing a formal evaluation framework.
- Examples
- Uses naive questions, what-if scenarios, reverse brainstorming, failure analysis, thought walks, and the Triple Nickel exercise.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via prompts and timed exercises to discover constraints, test alternatives, and strengthen ideas before dismissing them.
Related concepts
- Tree-of-thoughtcontrasts with · Tree-of-thought is a reasoning technique that explores and evaluates multiple branching paths of intermediate reasoning to develop a solution.
- artificial intelligenceused by · Artificial intelligence is the field concerned with creating computational systems that perform tasks associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, perception, or decision-making.
- collaborationuses · Collaboration is coordinated activity in which multiple participants contribute toward a shared goal or outcome.
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