What's your average lines of code output per day?

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: BustaBust
I'm just getting into programming. How does this IT voyage start out?
Helpdesk?

I have no idea how everything is supposed to work.
From the first day of the first job to ......

Judging from the comments it doesn't seem all that great.

I'm still a student and I'm not in the work force yet but from what I have seen, a programmer wouldn't typically start at a helpdesk. A typical programmer would go to a university, walk out with a degree and jump straight into a programming role.

As far as a self-taught programmer, I couldn't tell you what sort of career path they are looking down but if I were to hazard a guess I'd say most of them wind up in startups or struggling software houses. I could be (and almost certainly am) wrong.

 

[Train]

Originally posted by: Woosta
Minimum 500 - it depends on what I'm working on and the difficulty, but around this much daily. 130 wpm and Vim helps

IMO if your typing that much code per day something is very wrong. Lots of studies have been done at places like MS, IBM, Sun, and they all point to programmers spending 80-90% of thier time just READING code. 5-10% MODIFYING code, and only 2% or so actually writting new code.

If your putting out 500 lines a day im going to assume your % of time writting new code is way off the industry average, and you either need to look into some sort of code generator or your not reusing or encapsulating code very well.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: BustaBust
I'm just getting into programming. How does this IT voyage start out?
Helpdesk?

I have no idea how everything is supposed to work.
From the first day of the first job to ......

Judging from the comments it doesn't seem all that great.

Help-desk only if you're in the right company at the right time... I moved from customer service at a small company to work in the email department, and then programming. One of the other developers here worked in the NOC for a couple years before coming into programming.

 

[Woosta]

Originally posted by: Train

Originally posted by: Woosta
Minimum 500 - it depends on what I'm working on and the difficulty, but around this much daily. 130 wpm and Vim helps

IMO if your typing that much code per day something is very wrong. Lots of studies have been done at places like MS, IBM, Sun, and they all point to programmers spending 80-90% of thier time just READING code. 5-10% MODIFYING code, and only 2% or so actually writting new code.

If your putting out 500 lines a day im going to assume your % of time writting new code is way off the industry average, and you either need to look into some sort of code generator or your not reusing or encapsulating code very well.

Actually I don't even think my LPD should be compared because I'm in the learning stage, learning a few languages and I'm not really duplicating or improving upon huge, huge applications but rather just making functions/scripts and testing and so forth to get better at programming.