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do you typically like coding with music or without music better?  

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  1. 1. do you typically like coding with music or without music better?

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After this post I'll vote,

 

In my opinion theres a benefit to both. At my competition there was about 30-40 thousand spectators, it was insane and the level of focus needed was 100% or your done. So I loaded up my Shure head sets , and I put it on noise cancelling mode, I amped the music and honestly my focus went straight to the gutter. The rest of my body was in tune with the music while I needed my focus to be on the programming. I turned it off and went silent mode, all I can hear was my own heart beat and breathing harddd, this to me was the focus I needed to win.

 

For non-competition purposes and if your the type of guy who can't stare at a screen all day long and need some sort of "fun" involved while programming, then the music might help. Sometimes I get carried away and just start dancing haha. However I think all music nowadays suck, I am a younger guy around here, still in me teens, and what we are supose to enjoy is completely garbage sorry to say.

It depends really. I spend allot of time with my headphones on when I'm at work, but it's more just to prevent outside distractions.

 

At home, I might have the TV or stereo on in the lounge room, far away from my office, but I'll rarely use my headphones.

 

I guess I always need a bit of noise though.

I always have music playing at the computer, for the first 20mins or so after starting I spent a lot of my time procrastinating, choosing each individual song. Then I get to a point where I've become so focused with the coding the music has basically become a very distant background sound(despite still be right infront of me) and I'll type away for hours and before I know it, half the day has passed and I've made a lot of progress.

thanks for the replies guys, I think that this is an interesting topic.. this came to me yesterday when I was coding a website and couldn't quite keep my focus, I realized that the music had me focusing on that instead of my work.. I also have ADD so that doesn't help the matter.. heh.. for me, coding without music but with my headphones on is the preferred way.

However I think all music nowadays suck, I am a younger guy around here, still in me teens, and what we are supose to enjoy is completely garbage sorry to say.

 

I agree for the most part, but then again you don't have to listen to it. I'm only 22 and mostly listen to music from decades before I was born. They certainly don't make it like that anymore in my opinion. Of course then though they didn't have computer software to do most of it for them -- we are victims of our own success! ("We" meaning programmers in general)

At work... No, I get too many questions to have time for music, and sometimes for even doing the coding.

 

At home, I usually listen to music while I code, but lately I just don't feel like coding when I get home, so I play StarCraft or watch Netflix instead, and don't usually listen to music then.

 

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