From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2009-03-12T05:04:36+09:00
Subject: Re: How Many hours in A day

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Zayd Connor <devrubygem@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a very simple ? How many hours in a day should someone who is new
> to ruby or programming spend learning and coding without over kill. Say
> two hours in the morning and two in the evening? Sometimes when running
> across problems that two hours can easily turn into 5 :) To the
> professional Ruby programmers that read this post, how many hours in the
> day did you take time out to code when climbing up that hill.
>
> I'm learning Rails and Ruby at the same time and sometimes I think I
> should just get comfortable with Ruby first before diving into Rails.
>
> Thanks
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I'd say that varies quite a bit by person.  All depends on time,
personality, (I hate to use this phrase but) learning style, and most
of all, how much you're getting into it.

I've spent many gleeful 14 hour sessions learning some things that
I've never had to revisit, because it stuck. Then again I've spent
plenty of torturous 1-2 hour study sessions to make other material
stick.  And no, it wasn't necessarily because it was boring or
non-computer related either.

I'd say plan on taking 30 minute breaks every few hours.  If you start
cutting them short because you're dying to get back to it, spend all
day.  When you start taking the whole break, or lengthening it, it's
time to let it go for a few hours, if not the day!

--Kyle