Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 23:10:05 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <28133f49-0465-447d-9a34-062fb8c82ea1@googlegroups.com> <5d7de6a8-eb4a-462c-989a-1c27a714aa03@googlegroups.com> <6b58dde6-ab5d-452a-b4dd-c45a53e1b45d@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 23:10:05 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d7cbeb0b270e2c06e103762ce5596927"; logging-data="4246"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+jd7rInpFBBr06W6rIQdVjJhBjkhh7H1c=" User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Cancel-Lock: sha1:T4FX9p09qhrA2bOCPrfiZj85Qa0= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:39237 On Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:09:21 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 12/27/2019 2:14 PM, Eric Douglas wrote: >> On Friday, December 27, 2019 at 1:47:40 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >>> 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. >> >> To look at what I've accomplished I look at number of tasks, size of >> tasks, how long did they take. I never counted lines of code much less >> tried to figure lines per hour. > For a given problem less code complexity (which is usually somewhat > related to less lines of code) is better. > > But for large projects then averages rules. > But the number of lines of code written, compiled and tested and ready to be released for acceptance testing by the client can vary a lot between developers. One project I was on a long time back (a financial message switch written in PL/1 and running on a Stratus fault-tolerant system) have developer productivity metrics ranging from 25 lines/day to 125 lines/day. -- Martin | martin at Gregorie | gregorie dot org