Originally posted by abhijit
Yes I mean lines of code. The industry average is supposed to signify how much of code goes into production. So basically its not your typing speed that we are talking about.


Lets say you receive a java assignment where you have to dish out a class which reads / writes ini files. You understand the task, put some code that works. Debug / Test and then code some more. So at the end of one week, you have about 200 lines of code which form a class. Then then calculate the average 200 / 5 which comes to 40. So 40 LOC is your average for the day. Maybe someone can put all those 200 lines in one day and finish off the assignment to perfection. In that case his average would be 200. Highly unlikely IMHO.


However my question is is there any publication which publishes this average?
OK, first, I do about 100-200 SOLID lines of code a day, so that isn't highly unlikely. (yes, I do this for a job day in and day out, and sometimes I produce way more than that) In fact, if I only produced 15 lines of code a day, I would be fired. You can NEVER get a project done with that rate unless you have 10 programmers doing the work I do alone for the same amount of money. Hmmm.

As far as where to find this, I haven't been able to locate a publication. I have asked other more experience developers in the industry via email and such, and they said 200 a day is about average from their perspective.

If you find a resource please post it.