I don't so much see myself as a programmer (and I'm not one professionally, still at university) but rather an engineer. An engineer who works with software, I love building software but the joy I get out of programming is no different to that which an EE would get when building an appliance. It's the actual building of something useful, solving a problem, that instils my love of coding. I'm an engineer who has a passion for software would perhaps be the best way of putting it.