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

[tfinch2]

So I've been working as a developer for more than two years now, but this is the first time I've done it without school. I've been at it for about three months now, and started immediately with a large workload because I was not new when I started as a full-time employee (previously an intern).

I never did expect to sit in my cube for 8 hours a day and churn out code, but if somebody told me a few years ago that my average LOC/day was going to be ~30 while being busy 100% of the time I am at work, I would not have taken them seriously.

I know that LOC/day is not a very good gauge for a developer's productivity, but to me it's an interesting subject none-the-less.

Thoughts?

 

[Markbnj]

Honestly I think it's a horrible measure, and pretty meaningless as there is no way to correlate it with increases in the level of abstraction of popular languages. We work on feature-oriented schedules, and also bug-fix-oriented.

 

[Crusty]

I've never really kept track of that, or really had any desire to. Sure I've looked once or twice at the end of the day, but mostly because I knew it was going to be really high. For me it's all about getting as many bugs fixed and getting new features into the code base as quickly as possible so we can start getting feedback from the users to start all over again the next week

 

[presidentender]

Some days I write two hundred, some days I write two. The two LOC days are, by and large, harder than the 200 LOC days.

 

[Aberforth]

300 - 400 lines average

 

[degibson]

One of my current projects (as captured by my latest svn revision and some of my own tallying scripts):
Total code written by me: 55410
Total debugged lines written by me (incl comments): 35041
Total debugged lines (no comments): 28781
Total business days working on the project: 507
LOC/day: ~109, ~69, or ~57, depending on your definition of LOC

Most of that has been in massive chunks at a time, say, 1000 lines every 10 days or so.

 

[KB]

I include the UI designer lines of code, plus code created by code generators in my code count for management, so my output ranges from 15 - 5000 /day.

If I don't include auto-code then it is 15 - 200 lines per day

 

[MrChad]

http://johnhasson.com/blog/images/1/r_dilbert2.gif

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: MrChad
http://johnhasson.com/blog/images/1/r_dilbert2.gif

Haha, /thread.

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: MrChad
http://johnhasson.com/blog/images/1/r_dilbert2.gif

LOL

 

[techfuzz]

Most days I spend my time in meetings, phone, and with other support issues even though I'm the sole developer. When I do get around to coding without all the distractions I probably write 100-200/day. But when you factor in all the other stuff, I'm probably near 10-20 LOC/day.

techfuzz

 

[Train]

Some days I can accomplish the most by actually reducing the amount of code in my app.

Say I have 4 bugs to fix, they are all caused by a bad class design. I do some refactoring, remove a few redundant methods, etc etc. Bugs are fixed, and I could have 500 less lines of codethan when I started.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: presidentender
Some days I write two hundred, some days I write two. The two LOC days are, by and large, harder than the 200 LOC days.

 

[nakedfrog]

I'd generally prefer my LOC/day to be a negative number, since we have a fairly large code base.

 

[JACKDRUID]

Originally posted by: Aberforth
300 - 400 lines average

you work wayyy to hard.. make me look bad..

 

[Woosta]

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

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I'd generally prefer my LOC/day to be a negative number, since we have a fairly large code base.

And we have another winner .

 

[eakers]

it depends. I haven't written any new code in like 2 weeks because I've been working on design documents and investigation projects.

Next week I can start implementation though.

 

[Aberforth]

Originally posted by: JACKDRUID

Originally posted by: Aberforth
300 - 400 lines average

you work wayyy to hard.. make me look bad..

Sorry

 

[degibson]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I'd generally prefer my LOC/day to be a negative number, since we have a fairly large code base.

That sounds like a really great idea for me to do, too.

 

[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.

 

[drebo]

It's not for everyone, that's for sure.

 

[BustaBust]

Like outgoing people that aren't nerds?

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: BustaBust
Like outgoing people that aren't nerds?

Sure...

 

[BustaBust]

Haha I just wanted to see what he was going to say