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Kaj_Sotala 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: Kaj_Sotala 29 June 2013 12:20:24PM *  1 point [-]

I have heard a lot of people say that around 3-4 hours is typical. (That is also the average for professional writers, so it makes sense for that to generalize to other kinds of creative work.)