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

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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 29 June 2013 01:53:00PM 0 points [-]

The only way I can get actual 8 hours of focused programming work is if it's the sort of tweaker monkey work where I just try a whole bunch of combinations trying to achieve the thing I've already figured I want to do. Examples of this are long debugging sessions, writing FFI bindings and writing an assembly subroutine. If I actually need to keep figuring stuff out, 2 to 4 hours is generally the amount I can manage.