how many lines of code (C++) are there approximately in one man-hour.?

Question

Is there any industry average?

Answer 1

That depends on whether or not they are good lines of code. I've spent one hour writing four lines of code that eloquently solved a problem. I've also written 1500 lines in one hour, but they were rather simple.

Lines of code was a good way to measure programmer's progress in earlier years when proceedural code and heavy optomization meant that all developers wrote standard code for a specific purpose using known methods. That has largely changed with the addition of high-level langauges, the powerful IDE environments, and the high code reusablity. In short, lines per hour is no longer much of a good standard for programmers.

As to what is, however, I can't really help there.

Answer 2

In my twisted reality, it depends on two factors:
1.) Am I being paid hourly or flat rate for the work?
2.) How you answered when I asked "Fast, Good, Cheap. Pick 2".

I don't think there is a serious answer to this question. Any averages would be immensely difficult to use for predictions. I've seen assigned values based on experience, difficulty of program and some other factors, but they can be ridiculously off since human judgement and estimation enters into it. Even tracking errors on past projects is fairly unreliable especially when modules in other languages, ill-documented pre-existing code, libraries or language standards (let alone switching languages altogether!) are involved.

Answer 3

Sorry mate cant help because sometime I can write about over 2000 line of code and sometime I use my LIBRARY I have created. There are no rules about this long as your code works properly in testing. If it did then Best of luck or back to the keyboard

Answer 4

It depends on how fast you can type, think, etc. and it depends just how much experience you have programming in C++