Coding Quickly; How?
10ren: I wrote the first version of my app in 2 hours - but it took a year of iteration to become a salable product.(1) the first version worked, but it was the minimal feature set you could imagine. That's one way to code fast.(2) The 2 hours doesn't include thinking about it, designing it and using other tools in the same area. So I really just typed it in 2 hours. The lack of bugs just showed that I understood the problem, and that the design of the code was simple enough to be trivial to debug (and having minimal features). This is another way to code fast.I use google, docs, etc for sample code. I use it in two ways: (1) to help me understand; and (2) if it's not at the core of what I'm doing, I'll imitate how others do that part (e.g. how to use an API). The idea is to carefully apportion my time and energy - it's easy to waste heaps of time understanding something incidental to my task, when that time and effort is needed for understanding the important things.Understanding is the difficult part. That's what programming is really about for me - not the looking up docs/typing/debugging.