Comments on: To Code With Or Without Music That Is The Question

By: Music « SerendipityandMe

Music « SerendipityandMe — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:13:31 +0000

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By: rent textbooks

rent textbooks — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:33:15 +0000

Honestly it all depends on the time/place/mood I’m in…

By: Pablo

Pablo — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:41:37 +0000

I have found that when I´m listening a music that speaks in another language tha I understand, or, the music play so fast or is very distorted in the voice of the singer (and in all cases, my brain can’t follow the lyrics of the music) I can code and study wihout problems, the same as if I’m not listen a music, with the contradistinction that when I’m listening a music I enjoy more coding or studing, so when i’m not listening can do the same, but I get be more bored in a minor unit of time.

That is the conclusion that I have from several years as programmer.

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:19:46 +0000

I get distracted easily. I try to minimize the noise around me, when I engage in analytical activities, but that’s not always possible at work. No headphones = hearing loud boss on phone or someone talking about how horrible the system is coded (neither of which helps me with task on hand–analysis!). So I tend to stick my headphones on and have trained myself to treat it as background noise (which I can control and ignore). Given a choice I would prefer to have a very quiet environment (completely isolated from others) with very low volume classical music playing–wishful thinking! It’s not that I don’t like other humans; I just like them too much that I easily engage myself in conversations with them.

So for now, my solution for noise is… well… more noise! :-)

By: Miss Anonymous

Miss Anonymous — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:25:33 +0000

Sometimes it’s a case of no choice! I work in an office where the radio is played all day long with incessant chatter and distractions in the background. There is no escape but my iPod lol. Coding in silence is bliss, coding to background chatter is hell but coding with music makes the environment far more tolerable.

By: TheDissenter

TheDissenter — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:39:06 +0000

Likely because I have played musical instruments my whole life, I cannot ‘listen’ to music in the background, since my brain forces it into the foreground thereby distracting me. However, there seems to be an exception that once the problem is solved and only coding remains, listening to classical music seems to make coding easier in a way I can’t really explain. So once again the usual answer is, it depends.

By: text book rentals

text book rentals — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:25:48 +0000

I like digital music the Chill station on Slacker radio without vocals. But I offten have the TV on and podcasts, it seams to keep my ADD to a minimum giving my distraction something to focus on. Allowing me to really focus.

but I am not sure if I am just fooling myself.

By: Alan Skorkin

Alan Skorkin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:32:00 +0000

Hehe, you won’t get an argument from me there, I’ll take any music over sledgehammer next to window :).

By: Dmitry Kandalov

Dmitry Kandalov — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:31:04 +0000

I used to listen to music while working in office. It think it helped me to avoid distractions such as other people talking on the phone. But after I started working at home (separate room and silence) I suddenly realized how much better I can program without listening to music.
In noisy office listening to music is a trade-off between being distracted by music and noise in the office. I still think that some music genres are certainly better than noise :)

By: Ruben Zevallos Jr.

Ruben Zevallos Jr. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:31:42 +0000

I prefer to not listening music for coding or writing, but where I work, there are lot of noise and people talking, so that I have to shield my self with a trance or electronic music.