Question: how long does it take for you to program a computer

Phil Sutton answered on 6 Mar 2017:

This is quite an interesting question. It all depends what you are asking the computer to do. Even if it is a very complicated task you are asking the computer to do what you might do is split it up into lots of smaller programs all inside one big one. Typically it might take me half a day to write the program from scratch. However, the problem with computers is they do exactly what you tell them to do. Whereas with a human they might alter what they have been asked slightly so that the task can be done (sometimes instructions are wrong). So after a few hours of writing the program I could then spend up to a week finding all the errors and reasons why the computer hasn’t done what I thought I asked it to do.