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My first boss taught me it's not how much you type but what you type. I was straight out of university and I knew my shit (as all graduates do but don't). He w
by dazzawazza 14y ago
My first boss taught me it's not how much you type but what you type.
I was straight out of university and I knew my shit (as all graduates do but don't). He would spend ages looking at a piece of code, scrolling around, running the app, walking about and plonk down a few lines of code. After a year of bashing out code I realised.
Most coding happens in the planning, not in the mundane exercise of typing.
- dbpatterson 14y agoI don't think anyone doubts that - but it is hard to get faster at planning (and usually a bad idea), while it is very possible to get faster at typing/editing (the latter benefits a lot more from knowing an editor than the former). So if you want to increase your productivity, you might as well go after what you can reasonably expect to speed up.