Do pro coders code at great speed as shown in movies?

Question

is it that easy if we learn?

Answer 1

I rewrote an OO binary as a multiuser webapp once (~3 hours for something you'd normally give days) including database integration, filtering, validation and console-type hotkeys for rapid entry. This was needed in a department with dozens of idle workers who--using the binary--were mired in organizational issues multiplied by sheer data scale.

They intended to brute force the glut so I sold "we can fix it for good" knowing it was now...or wait 6 months for a proper schedule.

Coding the replacement was "at movie speed" and it wasn't the deadline (though that helped)...I knew the network, task, problem + every system I touched inside and out, I had no blockades (security/politics) and I had written the original binary. Add a critical business pivot and basically, everything got out of my way.

It worked out of the gate, deployed on time and was a permanent change. The binary was never updated again + relegated to no-Internet staff.

So... Yes.

Answer 2

Jamie PDQ is pretty damn quick?

Answer 3

Basic commands yes but the whole projects no.
Some are fast enough but first of all you need to think how not to code at all.

Answer 4

It is language after all.

Just like you learn to speak a foreign language fluently, you should become a quicker code writer if you master the 'vocabulary' and practice a lot.

Answer 5

Kirk Schafer I hope your peers and management understood what you did there. I don't work as a programmer, only a sys admin who does everyone's "tech" related work at my workplace, like scanning and sometimes even sending emails. And on few occasions, because of unrealistic deadlines from management, I had to stay overtime, and I don't know anyone faster than me, yet they complained that they had to wait after me 😐 There's one old lady that brings me chocolate when I help her though :)

Answer 6

I've coded and tested a few thousand lines in under 2 hours back in my prime. Now, I have trouble coding more than 50 lines in a shot.

Answer 7

yes, i can code at great speed. but only after i have sat down and gone over everything, first i need to understand exactly what i need to do and visualize it in my head, then i transfer that information from my head to my screen.