Judge Alsup learns to code and schools Oracle

Re:Judge Alsup learns to code and schools Oracle by drostie on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @02:44AM (#3980797)

Working on it myself, after having read what the code does and being committed to re-implementing it myself, it took me 3.5 minutes and there were 2 bugs. (I needed to look at the original code again to determine that to == length and to == from were both allowed -- those were the bugs.)

A set of tests took me about 6 minutes.

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Re:Judge Alsup learns to code and schools Oracle by 6ren on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @07:44AM (#3981596)

Did you include the time it took to read what was needed, including the different exceptions? I would estimate, if one wasn't fresh and up for a challenge, 15 minutes (against your approx 10 minutes). And given that a day of programming isn't pure programming, I'd double it to 30 minutes. It feels way too long, but it's a realistic, day-in-day-out estimation.

Programming takes time... which is why it's so powerful if you can reuse code (as Bloch did), and even better if you can find a way to reduce the code needed, or best, to avoid needing any code.

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