What Is Bedroom Programming?

It may be as easy as programming when you are in your bed and away from your boss's supervision. Bedroom programming is one such act of writing code without a boss. We call it bedroom programming because most people who do it are doing it in their bedrooms. Some people have even moved so far as to say that bedroom programmers are "going it alone," which is an exciting way to put it because going it alone is exactly what they are doing. You'll probably only find a bedroom programmer working in a corporate office environment if they've been hired specifically for their skills as a bedroom programmer, which only happens sometimes. Most people very often do this kind of thing because they know something about computers and have an idea that they can turn it into something useful or fun. Bedroom programming was popularized in the days before the internet, when computers were large, expensive machines that only large companies could afford. These bedroom programmers only had access to some of the tools we do now, no APIs to speed up development, and no libraries to make things easier. They worked on these massive machines with their code and did whatever they wanted with them. They were lone wolves working in their homes or independently of big corporations. Today's bedroom programmers are working toward a similar goal: to regain the power and independence lost when venture capital firms started backing strictly modeled development processes. They wish to return to the days when amateurs coded unhampered by templating or framework tools such as APIs or put the power back in the hands of solitary individuals. It is an attempt at "doing it yourself" rather than using collectively developed systems and frameworks.