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I think early in your career as a programmer you spend a lot of time researching, and then as you gain more experience and learn more about the languages, tools
by sauldcosta 11y ago
I think early in your career as a programmer you spend a lot of time researching, and then as you gain more experience and learn more about the languages, tools, etc. you're working with you end up spending more time writing code and less having to read S.O. answers :)
- jadc 11y agoActually, unless you are working on your own, you will find as you get more experienced, you will be spending more time on tasks other than coding, such as design, mentoring, etc...
- sauldcosta 11y agoAgree 100%. I'm a co-founder on an early stage startup, so the only people I have the time to mentor right now are the other members of the team.
- loopbit 11y agoI think that the parent is actually referring to design time. I find as I grow older that I program in short bursts. I spend quite a bit of time thinking about what I want to do. I scribble a couple of diagrams on paper to make sure that the image I have in my head is complete and once I'm sure of what I want to do and why, only then, I start typing. Usually, those first scribbles end up being my test cases. As for the original article, if I had to use as much gear as he does just to get by, I would really rethink my life.
- TickleSteve 11y agoI've been creating software now for almost 25 years and I find that the amount I type has definitely decreased over that time. Developing good, maintainable, correctly abstracted software should need more design/thinking time than actually implementing/typing it.