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A comment on Ask HN: Do you spend more time coding or debugging?.

Re:Ask HN: Do you spend more time coding or debugging? by govindpatel on Thursday May 19, 2016 @11:02AM (#11730765)
debugging. because coding is the easiest part. when I am asked to build any feature. I take some time thinking on what and how should I do (around 10%-20% of my time). Once I feel like I have a good idea I continue to code (But sometime when I start to code I spend more time on thinking on designing code, like best practises etc.) so I think like 30%-40% of my time go to coding and thinking about best code practises. But then comes the part where I really struggle DEBUGGING. Rest of my time go in debugging stuff,

But I am not sure how can I improve myself. I am not sure whether anyone faced this but I feel like the starters really feel the same way.

All fun lies in debugging I sometime love it. I find funny bugs in my code. But it is so time consuming and I really want to reduce that. Not sure how. Any help will be thankful.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you spend more time coding or debugging? by jgsteven on Thursday May 19, 2016 @02:00PM (#11732197)
Like other commenters have noted, the more experience you get and the more you learn to improve the design of your code right off the bat, the less debugging you should have to do. Hopefully then the coding part becomes just as fun as the debugging currently is for you -- a lot of satisfaction can come from coding something really well and having it work just as you expected the first time.
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