[Tutor] how long?

[Tiger12506]

> Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>> * Ben Waldin (Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:46:42 +1200)
>>> How long will it take until I successfully create my own working program 
>>> that is useful? I have crated the address book ones in the tutors and 
>>> just want to know how long it takes before I start to create my own 
>>> thought up programs that will be useful. Thanks Ben
>>
>> Approximately ten days, four hours and six minutes
>>
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Hmmm... I'd say it depends on whether or not you can... 'create my own 
thought up programs', much more than how long it takes.

Hey! I have an idea! Why don't you write a python program that can calculate 
just how long it takes for you to do that? I'd guess that's what Thorsten 
Kampe has done. ;-)

Factors involved in the algorithm:
1) How quickly you develop creative ideas (women usually do this better - My 
mother walks into a craft store, looks at an ugly little doll and exclaims, 
"Oooh! I know just what to do with that!")

2) How "useful" those ideas are - i.e. How many drawings you have compared 
to started projects

3) How motivated you are to finish them - ex. how crowded your workbench is 
compared to how many projects you have finished.

4) How effectively you translate thoughts into words, that is, how well you 
can articulate the language you are working in. (Be it English, Spanish, 
French, German, Python, C/C++, etc.)

5) Hmmm... I can't think of a "Five". That means I must be lacking a little 
in #1. ;-)

Let's see... Once you've accumulated a bunch of data about yourself, your 
habits, your hobbies, the 4 factors i listed, etc, etc, etc... Then all you 
have to do is do a weighted calculation averaging these together... Hmmm... 
you'll need a test case too, so you will have to accumulate data on other 
people to see how long it takes them (based on their abilities because 
different people have different capacities for learning). Oh. And you will 
have to determine just what useful means to you. Collect a lot of data on 
that, being sure that you compare what you think is useful against what 
other people think is useful. Average it all up and come up with some sort 
of result. Just always keep in mind what you're aiming for, your goal (which 
in this case is to find how long it takes to write useful programs).

LOL. Do you really think that anyone on this list can tell you how long it 
will take? Only *you* know how long it will take *you* to write what *you* 
think is a useful program.

Jacob S.