Sometimes I'm at my most productive when I remove code.
But more seriously, a lot of time is eaten up by meetings, coordinating what we're going to code, thinking or discussing how we're going to code it, testing the result, reproducing bugs found, etc.
But it seems this survey also doesn't consider reading code to be coding, which makes me wonder: if having the IDE open and focusing on the code in it is not enough, and they're only interested in the actual typing, how do they count the time around the typing? If I start writing `if (` and think a moment about the condition I'm going to put in there, does that thinking not count as coding? Because if that's the case, 52 minutes sounds high.
Coding is not just typing code. Thinking is the more important part of it.
But more seriously, a lot of time is eaten up by meetings, coordinating what we're going to code, thinking or discussing how we're going to code it, testing the result, reproducing bugs found, etc.
But it seems this survey also doesn't consider reading code to be coding, which makes me wonder: if having the IDE open and focusing on the code in it is not enough, and they're only interested in the actual typing, how do they count the time around the typing? If I start writing `if (` and think a moment about the condition I'm going to put in there, does that thinking not count as coding? Because if that's the case, 52 minutes sounds high.
Coding is not just typing code. Thinking is the more important part of it.