Programming Essentials

The factors needed to program successfully in full comfort and self-sufficiency:

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Preferably dark or dim room
Relative silence (when infringed the programmer reserves the right to sulk)
Many useless and dusty items adorning the programmer’s desk
- Those little replicas of RobbieTheRobot from ForbiddenPlanet are essential, not useless! Harumph.
A toilet roll
- BritishCulturalAssumption; they let us take bathroom breaks in the U.S. :-)
- bog roll can be used for a multitude of marvels, blowing of the nose, wiping of the fingers; see ProgrammingFood, removal of greasy fingerprints from the screen, programming beginners TinFoilHat etc.
Takeaway menus (or carry-out menus, as the case may be)
On becoming more advanced a TinFoilHat

Please add your essential to either this list or the one above :