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1,000 lines are probably not as much as you think. For web developers, if you included HTML, CSS, JavaScript, CGI language and SQL you can easily get over 1,000
by protonfish 12y ago
1,000 lines are probably not as much as you think. For web developers, if you included HTML, CSS, JavaScript, CGI language and SQL you can easily get over 1,000 characters in a week. (That's only about 25 lines an hour for 8 hours/day 5 days/week.)
- eterm 12y agoI'd struggle to think in a job which required 25 lines an hour ever, let alone constantly for 8 hours/day! I don't think I've ever written more than a few hundred LOC in a week.
- k-mcgrady 12y agoWhat kind of projects do you work on? I'm sure the experience differs a lot between people working on important, complex legacy projects, and people developing consumer mobile apps for photo sharing etc.
- Kiro 12y agoFor me working on complex legacy projects means even less LoC since you're so afraid of breaking stuff.
- matwood 12y agoExactly. When I was working on a payroll system it could take a day to change a modify a few lines and test all the various scenarios before releasing. The cost of making a mistake was large.
- k-mcgrady 12y agoExactly, that was my point. If you're starting a simple consumer product you'll write lots of code quickly. When working on something complex you need to consider how your changes will effect every aspect of the product.
- pdpi 12y agoEvery time I get anywhere near that sort of number, I look at it, and factor out all the boilerplate I'm almost certainly writing.