What is your daily coding schedule like?

Question

How many hours per day or per week do you code? What resources are you using? Do you set defined goals? Do you code at work or at home? What projects are you working on? How long do you believe it will be before you get hired?

Answer 1

When I was a student I usually coded at least 1-2 hours per day on addition to the 3-4 hours at job. And this for about 5 years. But I did that without defined goals. This has changed in the meantime. Today I code about 4-16 hours per week 'for fun' (more with goals today, and I even did set me some timers - sometimes for dedicated projects, sometimes to learn, practice and experience something new) in addition to 10-20 hours at job in average per week.

Answer 2

I'm into test automation, what's different from automation development (and I always was). Coding projects here in Germany are more multilingual, some more German, some more English, some completely mixed and often some more languages. You won't need to learn German for most projects. I've had the impression, that US developers more rely on coding standards than it is done here. But that's definitely not of disadvantage! 😉

Answer 3

Sandra Meyer what was your first job like? I see you are into automation which im interested in. Im focusing on python now and then will go more into a C language depending on what il need for the specific job. Im dipping my toes into SQL for a bot im working on and future projects. In Germany do you code using German or English? My wife is Norwegian and I may move there in the future so curious how europe is vs USA for coding. I started right before covid in february and have been coding minimum 3-4 hours daily with another 3-4 daily reading or tutorials ect

Answer 4

Sandra Meyer thanks for the answers I will read up on those. I figure if I can learn coding languages i can learn any spoken languages i need for the job. So europe is less focused on standards, meaning get the product done fast and ship it? Style like PEP 8 for python is less important, instead just get working code? Lots of international workers sounds fun.