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[Roybob]

I was wondering how much on average you programmers out there spend on Programming on daily basis and how much time you spend debuging. Any responses would be helpful.

[WingedPanther]

That's a hard question to answer. Depending on the complexity of the code, I tend to build limited functionality, debug it, then add more functionality, debug it, etc. From that perspective, am I just "programming" or doing a mixture? If I add code specifically to report errors, is that debugging or programming?

By contrast, sometimes I'm specifically dealing with bug reports from customers. Am I programming or debugging when I add code to correct the issue?

Any answer I could give would depend on how I interpreted answers to some of those questions.

[Roybob]

I see. Sounds like the responses I got from students here at my college. Ok I'll have to find another correlation in Information Technology then. Thanks for the response

[WingedPanther]

The alternative is to attempt to get more specific. Debugging is a form of coding, so the real issue is to define when you are no longer "coding" but "debugging".