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good question here.
Maulik Dusara
Sr. Sofware Engineer
I love it when a plan comes together
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Who are interested or involved in Research n Development, and find their task very much alike them, those people mostly spend 100% or more time in engineering.
Avinash S. Godse
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For legitimate coding 'at work', I honestly do less than 11%. Unfortunately, we are not a big business IT shop where people fear our amazing super powers.
Home is equally tough with two little girls.
With that, a beer and a napkin (deafening music = white noise) or notepad by the bedside when I wake are my most productive.
No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood.
-irresponsibility@Despair.com
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Just to clear the confusion. I only see non-engineering activities listed in the description anyway.
"Time spent engineering" would umbrella things like documentation, design, debugging, etc on top of actually coding.
Unless of course, you look at documenting, designing, debugging, etc all as "distractions". In which case, you may now carry on 
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While I do not spend a lot of time in meetings the vast majority of my work time is spent thinking about the code I am going to write and thinking about negative consequences and potential bugs.
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then who writes your code ? 
I appreciate your help all the time...
CodingLover 
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Why is Codeproject not included in the list?
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It counts as coding.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often *students*, for heaven's sake. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)
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So I should change my estimate from 10% to 95%?
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You hit it in one!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often *students*, for heaven's sake. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)
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Now I spend half my time thinking about what I'm going to do, chatting to colleagues, googling problems, checking the reference books, testing, brewing tea, documenting, integrating...
That's not exactly coding but it belongs to it. Right now I'm porting someone else's code and I haven't coded a line in weeks. Some months I code 10 hours a day, with sweat dripping onto the keyboard and the project leader drumming his fingers on the desk.
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RedSonja wrote: sweat dripping onto the keyboard
It's gotta be blood if you want to impress us .
Software Zen: delete this;
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During development of a new product/extension :-
60% design, analysis and thinking
20% Coding
20% Testing and Debugging
after that
80% Testing and Debugging
20% Writing code
once the product is matured
80% time customer support
20% coding and debugging
I have found that the time I spent on actual coding is very less.
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Do you count prototyping as coding?
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Yes.
By coding I mean actual time spent in IDE/Editor typing code.
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In all the breakups coding is 20 % So you would select option 2 or 3?
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It's a surprise that many developers code nearly 100% of time. Don't you at least analize, design and then code. Or you consider all development activities as "coding".
Best,
Jun
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right.
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VB programmers ... that is possible... they just type anythings then try to debug and fix. So they spend most of the time coding and not much thinking.
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Yves wrote: VB programmers ... that is possible... they just type anythings then try to debug and fix. So they spend most of the time coding and not much thinking.
Time spent debugging and fixing is not time spent coding, contrary to what they might fill in on their timesheets.
-Richard
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Whatever languages we use, we still analyze and design.
Best,
Jun
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