Coding with Music
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How many people listen to music while they program? Does it make you more productive?
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein
Yes and Yes. Working without music is about the least productive thing I can do. But switch on some ridiculously cheesy high-energy Eurodance from di.fm[^] and I'll just fall right into the 'zone' and productivity will soar. The music is so hypnotic, happy, and full of energy that you just can't help but do *something*! :cool:
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How many people listen to music while they program? Does it make you more productive?
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein
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How many people listen to music while they program? Does it make you more productive?
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein
I have a pile of new CDs by my PC that I am working through. I don't think it makes me MORE productive, but it doesn't make me LESS productive, and it makes me happy.
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How many people listen to music while they program? Does it make you more productive?
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein
CP is my ultimate concentration breaker, not music :)
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How many people listen to music while they program? Does it make you more productive?
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein
I do listen to music while coding and I don't care if it makes me more or less productive. :rolleyes: Good radios: Radio Jazz - a polish radio with an excellent music. Open Fm Jazz - a polish radio with a very good music. Dinner Jazz Excursion - a radio with an acceptable, not distracting music. Last FM was good as long as it was free (now it costs 3€ per month[^] :(().
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Why did you provide a link to rain? Surely we all know it's that wet stuff outside! :)
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How many people listen to music while they program? Does it make you more productive?
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein
I listen to noise, like the Swingle Singers. Drowns out the office gossip. But for doing the housework, there's nothing quite like Bach's Toccata and Fugue. And Chopin's nocturne in E flat major for studying.
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Why did you provide a link to rain? Surely we all know it's that wet stuff outside! :)
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How many people listen to music while they program? Does it make you more productive?
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein
I can listen to music without actually focusing on the music. Isn't classical music supposed to stimulate the brain more? Not all programming requires concentration. A lot of it is grunt work which is made less boring with some good music.
Todd Smith
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How many people listen to music while they program? Does it make you more productive?
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein
Since I have started buying mp3s early this year I have been coding most of the time with a constant stream of music. I have also ripped a few cds I had bought in the 90s. Before this at work I had a radio connected to my line in of my desktop so that I could click off the volume when the commercials started but that became too much of a hassle. I have no idea why most radio adds are very annoying and also at a louder volume than any song that is played on the station. I guess they assume that most will not mute them or switch station... Anyways the music relaxes me and makes me more productive. Although if I need to think about a design I sometimes turn it off for a few minutes.
John
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How many people listen to music while they program? Does it make you more productive?
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein
I've tried having music or podcasts or talk radio going while coding, and it doesn't help me code at all. The background noise in the office isn't distracting so I don't need to have something playing.
--Mike--
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How many people listen to music while they program? Does it make you more productive?
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein
I can't code until I got headphones in my ears...as fast as music increases the finger speed get speed up. In Maths, music directly proportional to finger speed.
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How many people listen to music while they program? Does it make you more productive?
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein
All the time, but the type of music depends on what I'm doing. Ambient/Soft Rock if I'm thinking about a problem and faster Metal/Rock if I'm coding. Not listening to music drives me nuts and I can't get a good days work done without it, the noises of the office are just to dull and uninspiring!
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How many people listen to music while they program? Does it make you more productive?
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein
This might sound strange but I either listen to classical music or Marilyn Manson really loud with my headphones. Im at my most productive when I do this. I have trouble concentrating and loud screamy stuff or sweeping classical music seems to focus me on my coding by cancelling out random thoughts. Maybe my random braincells just go "oh hell no, kthxbye" or fall asleep something :laugh: Plus our office noises are unbearable.
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I *need* music at work: I work in an open-plan office filled noisy, distracting people. It was suggested that the developers be moved to a "quiet" (or at least quieter) area but it would isolate us from the rest of the office community. I prefer to just plug in and block out the chatter. (In the Good Old Days we had air cond' labs to escape to when we were programming - or hot. :sigh: ) I find that familiar music with a fast beat (e.g. techno) is best when I'm in the zone.
"...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International
With you on the NEED thing....I'm stunningly lucky that although I have my own office, the door to it and others is always open, and I listen through speakers - I thought it would be a problem at first, but given the > 10gb of really REALLY varied music (From Akon to Zepellin through just about anything you care to mention, including Camoflage by Stan Ridgeway!) it was soon accepted by my colleagues...in fact, it's got to such a point that I can tell wether to skip a track or not, cos my boss starts whistling when he likes one I'm playing! For me, I really don't suffer with not being able to concentrate - I personally need some background noise...
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
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I can't concentrate on ANYTHING in silence, silence drives me nuts! I listen to rock, hard rock and metal when I'm coding but when I'm in the zone I prefer the musical stylings of Mr. John Petrucci and dream theater \m/
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Software Developer .Net, C#, SQL
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I can't concentrate on ANYTHING in silence, silence drives me nuts!
Thank god for that - I thought it was just me! I bet you HAVE to turn somethng on in your house when you get home too (my personal fave is turn on a TV then go about my day)
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
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Harvey Saayman wrote:
I can't concentrate on ANYTHING in silence, silence drives me nuts!
Thank god for that - I thought it was just me! I bet you HAVE to turn somethng on in your house when you get home too (my personal fave is turn on a TV then go about my day)
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
RichardGrimmer wrote:
I bet you HAVE to turn somethng on
I don't HAVE to, cause there is ALWAYS music playing, even when I'm not there :)
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I don't and the time when I tried it I was unproductive. SO I am still curious to know how people manage that. Because according to research brain cannot multi-task[^] when it comes to attention. Even IMs throw me off when I am doing serious coding. When coding seriously I close browser windows, close my door, turn off IM and close Outlook. On a side note, Brain rules is a pretty interesting book.
I mostly agree with you and still... I listen music while working! The fact is that I work in a very distracting environment (five people in a small office, phone calls, people coming in...) and music is the only practical way to isolate myself from such a mess. Of course some genres are better than others: classical and new age are way preferable over pop/rock.
Marco Turrini
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I mostly agree with you and still... I listen music while working! The fact is that I work in a very distracting environment (five people in a small office, phone calls, people coming in...) and music is the only practical way to isolate myself from such a mess. Of course some genres are better than others: classical and new age are way preferable over pop/rock.
Marco Turrini
I am a musician, and I always listen to music when I program. I believe it not only isolates from outer disturbances like phone calls and so on, but the beat of music helps having a good rythm - it enhances brain activity. Note that I listen to symphonic metal, goth metal and tech trance these days (depending on my mood). Heavy metal rulez!
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How many people listen to music while they program? Does it make you more productive?
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein
I usually just have the radio on (not with headphones though, I don't really get on with those). When I'm really in the zone, something far louder and livelier (Motorhead, Skyclad or whatever) is better though.
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