I saw this on
Reddit this morning and thought some of you may like to read it. Find the link to the full article on
http://dotmac.rationalmind.net below.
My experience as a programmer has taught me a few things about writing software. Here are some things that people might find surprising about writing code:
- A programmer spends about 10-20% of his time writing code, and most programmers write about 10-12 lines of code per day that goes into the final product, regardless of their skill level. Good programmers spend much of the other 90% thinking, researching, and experimenting to find the best design. Bad programmers spend much of that 90% debugging code by randomly making changes and seeing if they work.
“A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.” –Bill Gates - A good programmer is ten times more productive than an average programmer. A great programmer is 20-100 times more productive than the average. This is not an exaggeration – studies since the 1960′s have consistently shown this. A bad programmer is not just unproductive – he will not only not get any work done, but create a lot of work and headaches for others to fix.
Read the full article here:
http://dotmac.rationalmind.net/2010/08/some-lesser-known-truths-about-programming/
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