Why is there so much time spent on debugging, and not more on designing it?
With a better overall design, you'd think that less time would be spent on bug fixing. Instead, a lot of programmers that I've noticed write a lot of hack code that's not really thought out.
Yes.. GUI's are being researched, at least in the academia field. Being a current graduate research assistant, I've had the pleasure (yeah, right) of having to work in a Visual Programming Language environment that is being developed at my university. We are currently developing intuitive GUI's that are the result from doing numerous cognitive walkthroughs on previous versions of our VPL.
I totally agree with most of the people posting in this discussion. We all know that we work way more then the 32.9 hours that the gov't thinks we do. As well as being a grad student, and a research assistant on that, I totally see the student aspect of it as well. Sleep? That's counter productivity. What I say that needs to be done, is to start billing like a lawyer, but easy on the jokes..;] If you think about a job, bill for it. If you work on it from home, bill on it. If you read about something to help your job, bill it as research.. etc..
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Why is there so much time spent on debugging, and not more on designing it? With a better overall design, you'd think that less time would be spent on bug fixing. Instead, a lot of programmers that I've noticed write a lot of hack code that's not really thought out.
Yes.. GUI's are being researched, at least in the academia field. Being a current graduate research assistant, I've had the pleasure (yeah, right) of having to work in a Visual Programming Language environment that is being developed at my university. We are currently developing intuitive GUI's that are the result from doing numerous cognitive walkthroughs on previous versions of our VPL.
I totally agree with most of the people posting in this discussion. We all know that we work way more then the 32.9 hours that the gov't thinks we do. As well as being a grad student, and a research assistant on that, I totally see the student aspect of it as well. Sleep? That's counter productivity. What I say that needs to be done, is to start billing like a lawyer, but easy on the jokes.. ;] If you think about a job, bill for it. If you work on it from home, bill on it. If you read about something to help your job, bill it as research.. etc..