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How Important is Coding Speed?
I was watching a documentary the other day about the International Chopin Piano Competition held in Poland every 5 years. I have always been intrigued with the piano as an instrument so it was fascinating to see up close and personal footage of these talented young pianists work wonders with it. They work enormously hard as well as dedicate so much of their lives to it. The rollercoaster of emotions they go through for their craft was utterly compelling.
They will practice parts of a piece over and over again until it is completely engrained into their muscle memory
One thing that struck me was how they go about their practice. These young virtuosos will practice parts of a piece over and over again until it is completely engrained into their muscle memory. They can play it without thinking which is the level one needs to get to in order for the “soul” of the pianist to come through in the music.
I related this back to the profession of Software Development and specifically coding. We’re not working at a concert pianist level and we don’t need to perform but we do work with a keyboard and there are repetitive actions we do day in day out.
The more we know about the language the more diverse our options of implementation are and the quicker we can implement one of these options.
