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shminux comments on Learning programming: so I've learned the basics of Python, what next? - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: ChrisHallquist 17 June 2013 11:31PM

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Comment author: CasioTheSane 22 June 2013 08:07:52AM 1 point [-]

Do you have any more information on this?

My personal experience has been that it's almost impossible to consistently put in more than about 2 hours/day of highly focused 'flow' coding. I was previously worried that there was something wrong, but at this pace I'm able to complete big projects on a regular basis. Could this be normal even for productive programmers?

Comment author: shminux 22 June 2013 05:21:44PM 0 points [-]

2 hours a day seems low, but you might be unusually effective. My experience is that the duty cycle is closer to 50/50, and lower with overtime, the latter being common, especially in startups.