Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED.O5hsyUvK01te0L/SZurVSQ.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 13:47:27 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <28133f49-0465-447d-9a34-062fb8c82ea1@googlegroups.com> <5d7de6a8-eb4a-462c-989a-1c27a714aa03@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: O5hsyUvK01te0L/SZurVSQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:39233 On 12/27/2019 1:33 PM, Eric Sosman wrote: > On 12/27/2019 11:13 AM, Eric Douglas wrote: >> On Friday, December 27, 2019 at 9:28:44 AM UTC-5, Eric Sosman wrote: >>> On 12/26/2019 5:46 PM, chad altenburg wrote: >>>> I wrote my first Java based app for the Android smartphone. This was >>>> done by myself. Here are the stats for my first app... >>>> >>>> 1)Spending 10 hrs a week on it, it has taken me 20 months to get 95% >>>> if it complete. >>> [...] >>>       In 200 hours?  Lines are surely not all of equal difficulty, but >>> this seems a rather, uh, "leisurely" pace. >>> >> 200 hours?  He said 10 hours/week for 20 months, that's at least 800 >> hours. > >     Thanks for the correction!  I'll retract "leisurely" and substitute > "dead-slow, dawdling, and dilatory." It was 6000 lines. It may be pretty slow for "XXXX lines for learning" programming. But for a real project it would be OK. 10-30 lines per day is supposedly industry standard. Arne