Comment Peopleware on Music and Programming (Score 3, Interesting) 522
Music (not so good to makes one want to hear the music instead of working, neither something so bad that breaks concentration)
In Peopleware DeMarco and Lister writes about a series of test at Cornell on the effects of working with music in the 1960s:
The result was that groups with and without music performed about the same in speed and accuracy of programming.
However, the output data was to be manipulated about a dozen times. The net effect of the operations left output number equal to its input number.
The overwhelming majority of people who figured it out came from the group working without music.
If the right brain is busy listening to music the opportunity for a crative leap is lost.
So if programming is a crative art do not listen to music.
In Peopleware DeMarco and Lister writes about a series of test at Cornell on the effects of working with music in the 1960s:
The result was that groups with and without music performed about the same in speed and accuracy of programming.
However, the output data was to be manipulated about a dozen times. The net effect of the operations left output number equal to its input number.
The overwhelming majority of people who figured it out came from the group working without music.
If the right brain is busy listening to music the opportunity for a crative leap is lost.
So if programming is a crative art do not listen to music.
