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.5 to 1% of your programming time actually typing is an exaggeration right? That would be ~5 minutes of an 8 hour day typing. 8 hours each day to plan 5 minute
by jqm 11y ago
.5 to 1% of your programming time actually typing is an exaggeration right?
That would be ~5 minutes of an 8 hour day typing. 8 hours each day to plan 5 minutes of typing seems... well, something is wrong and I have trouble seeing a sizable project getting done like that.
I probably spend 2-3+ a day typing (for various reasons.. not all programming). And yes, typing is very big issue for me.
- tormeh 11y agoThat's probably about right. I mean, it depends how you count. I spend a lot of time at my computer, but if you only count the time spent actually physically pressing buttons that result in code then I guess that could be down to 5 minutes. The rest is spent looking at existing code, wondering how this particular thing should be wrangled together etc. I mean, I've spent a semester writing about 2k lines of code so things go slow. Then again it's a compiler for my own language, which together with me not being a great student probably means this is abnormally slow.
- JungleGymSam 11y agoActually measure yourself and get back to us.
- brianpan 11y agoI don't know why you'd only count button presses that result in code. I think I spend way more time on the keyboard than not. A large amount of my time is pressing buttons to debug or understand code: Find class, Find string, Go to implementation, Find usages, Step into, Step over. And those are sometimes the repetitive keystrokes that lead to the most fatigue/stress.