Programmers: How do you program so long programs?

[Nocturnal]

I mean just looking at Visual Basic and knowing that programmers just sit there and code, and code, and code (something I want to do eventually), it amazes me. How do you do it? Do you ever get tired? Do you ever mis-spell any words?

 

[tweakmm]

sub-routines/objects, yes, and i spel very god
:beer:

 

[pillage2001]

Somehow, when you're into it. You just don't feel the time that past by. My longest record was 10 hours with 20-30 mins break in between every 4 hours.

 

[gopunk]

extreme programming

 

[jonmullen]

I honestly dont even notice it I just get going and I get caught up in it and often lose track of time.

 

[NogginBoink]

Programmers enjoy the challenge of writing code. Solving problems. Making things work. It's a puzzle, and damn it, come hell or high water, we're going to solve that puzzle.

No, for the most part, programmers don't get tired. In fact, sometimes we look up and it's waaaaayyyy past bedtime and yet we want to press on.

Programming is a very mental task. A coder will get into 'the zone' where his mind is solving problems just faster than his fingers can type them, and will stay that way for hours.

Yes, we misspell things. The compiler catches it.

 

[Spac3d]

I never should have started programming in the first place

 

[her209]

Programmers have already written a master program to program for them. They only make it seem like they are programming for a long period of time. Muhahaha

 

[zsouthboy]

i program for hours on end, until i get to something i have no idea how to do, and none of my books explain, and google comes up with nothing for.

then i scream because i can't finish ONE LITTLE thing in my program, because my books suck.

<- i hate winsock. with a passion,

 

[sash1]

once you kinda get into the groove you just keep on going. Once I start programming something, I can actually end up sitting and typing for a few hours and not even know it.

~Aunix

 

[jonmullen]

Originally posted by: zsouthboy
i program for hours on end, until i get to something i have no idea how to do, and none of my books explain, and google comes up with nothing for.

then i scream because i can't finish ONE LITTLE thing in my program, because my books suck.

<- i hate winsock. with a passion,

Welcome zsouthboy would you care to share you problem?

 

[Mucman]

Coding is easy to do for hours... My road blocks are when my code doesn't work becuase of
OS or security related issues. I'm having a devil of a time writing ASP IIS administration scripts
for my work and it's driving me crazy...

I could code an advanced C++ Hashtable class for hours on end though. I had lots of fun writing a quicksort
program in C as well.

None of the stuff I've done is very large though. My largest C program was a basic interpretting unix
shell that did ~12 shell commands (implemented using system calls). I also have a few ASP projects
that are ~2000 lines of code.

 

[zsouthboy]

Originally posted by: jonmullen

Originally posted by: zsouthboy
i program for hours on end, until i get to something i have no idea how to do, and none of my books explain, and google comes up with nothing for.

then i scream because i can't finish ONE LITTLE thing in my program, because my books suck.

<- i hate winsock. with a passion,

Welcome zsouthboy would you care to share you problem?

heh.. you have no idea...

I'll pm you.

 

[beyonddc]

It's like playing video games, once you started, you can't stop. Same w/ programming for me. It's fun when you know what're you doing, but when you're stuck, that's a totally different case.

Usually when I'm stuck, I just walk around and relax a bit and rethink.

 

[Mucman]

Originally posted by: beyonddc
It's like playing video games, once you started, you can't stop. Same w/ programming for me. It's fun when you know what're you doing, but when you're stuck, that's a totally different case.

Usually when I'm stuck, I just walk around and relax a bit and rethink.

I remember being stuck on an assignment for 8 hours. I was so pissed off that I couldn't figure it out! I
then went for a walk, and 5 minutes into the walk I figured out the answer. I rushed back home and had
the whole thing completed in 30 minutes

 

[johnjohn320]

It's just like anything else. Doctors seeing patients for hours and hours. One problem after another, solve and go to the next one. I'm a musician, when I sit and practice for 4-5 hours straight it's the same thing: Accomplish something/solve a problem, move on to the next issue.

 

[Linux23]

well i still have my VB project from 1996. it's 89MB and it's sitting on a crashed file server. that should give you an idea as to how i feel about programming.

 

[newbiepcuser]

If there is a deadline for your job or project, do you have a choice?


Doing homework vs programming for the job is different.