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I find that apart from saving the time to have to open tonnes of docx files, now it takes maybe 5 mins to mark everything.Īll the recipe books I own have accurate prep + cook times for an “ideal chef in ideal circumstances.” I don’t know why they wouldn’t. After all the marking is done, I run that through another program that then formats that data to each student so it's back onto their individual report plus any comments or deductions. Then once all of the Q1's are done, I mark all the Q2's. So now I see all of Q1 one after the other for each student's and mark those. So I wrote a program to parse all of the questions from all of the reports and present them to me in question batches. I figured this was super inefficient since I needed to have the answer and context of the question in my mind and keep switching. So I'd mark Q1, then Q2 etc for one assignment, then go over to the next one and start back at Q1. Slowest part about marking these is having to context switch for each question. These assignments have 12 short answer questions and each student must do them. I've recently been assigned a course to teach where I need to mark lots of assignments. Most of the time i have a clear picture about what the general design is, and now i just need to write out the internals. But that's only 10-20% of the time for me. I do turn music down when i'm thinking about a challenging problem. I often even lightly sing while i'm programming (I work from home, lol).Įdit: Oh, i should add though - this whole post of mine represents the. ![]() Most of the time though lyrics are just yet another sound, and they vanish into the fog of work for me. I tend to want to focus on the lyrics, learn them, understand them, etc. The only time i find music to be a distraction rather than a method of focus is if the song is too new to me, is heavily lyrics based, _and_ i really enjoy that authors lyrics. My shoulders get super tight, and i'll find myself in a trance an hour later, super tense and feeling like i'm waiting for a bomb to drop. Worse yet, i find silence while programming to be stress inducing. My brain wanders, i start making music, etc. I have difficulty in life operating _without_ music. Yea, this is highly dependent on the person. My flow state is drastically improved by music, and I have never ever named a variable after the song name or song artist I'm listening to in my life. > This point in the article lost me pretty quickly. ![]() That's when I cut the feed, double-time my focus, and once I'm convinced it's "safe" I can hit play again. If I'm currently listening to music, I really only do a full stop/pause to focus if I notice I've run a breakpoint three times and have no idea what I've been stepping thru, or if I'm trying to refactor or write a fresh, new logic flow and just can't get my brain focused enough to "check it" for all possible paths. Typically if I'm super tired AND need to block out the outside world but even hard to understand screaming won't cut it, I have to resort to either instrumental metal or LoFi hip hop beats to study to. ![]() If I'm having a hard time focusing and need a distraction for some parts of my brain but not all of it, I have a "deathcore" (really more like melodic (tech) death metal) playlist where most of the songs sound very similar and you can't understand a thing the vox are saying. Usually I'm doing menial tasks or simple coding. If I need a mood boost or something to get my body "moving" in my seat and keep me from mentally wandering, I'll throw on stuff I really know and love. I actually have to get even more specific than this (at least prior to being diagnosed with ADHD in 2020 and getting Vyvanse for it). I thereby find some (mostly useless) tasks easier if I am seriously even playing a video game with a targeted skill while doing them (people hate me in meetings sometimes P), or maybe listening to music, but if I am doing the hard coding work I "should be doing" I just can't :(. but if I need them, and they are busy deciding some music I am listening to, I lose out on the maybe-even-often subconscious processing they do that gives me valuable insight. I personally feel like there are different components of my brain and some of them just want to do something, and if I don't "distract" them then they do something arbitrary and maybe in turn distract me. they were also much less likely than the people who did the task in silence to notice that all of those steps collapsed down to "return a constant number". There was (usefully) no difference in the correctness of the implementations, but people who listed to music reported more subjective happiness / less boredom doing the task. There was a semi-famous study (one that I feel every developer should have at least considered) that gave software developers a problem to code in the form of some convoluted set of steps, and they were either assigned to listen to music or not to listen to music.
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