How long does it take you to develop...

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How long, on average, does it take you to create a medium-sized project, when working alone? By "medium" I mean around 25-40 source files, with an ESLOC value of around 700-1300. (effective source lines of code, which does not include comments, package statements, and optionally involves imports (but in this case do not include import statements because it only works if you do it consistently)).
By create I mean including the design, the coding, and just enough testing to be able to distribute it as a first-version beta application. It would also be nice if you say how long these three stages takes you individually.
I know this is a very general, and perhaps ambiguous question, but try your best to answer. In addition to your answer, can you post your programming experience (i.e. whether you do it for a living, for a hobby, if you've majored/minored CS, how long you've been programming, etc.).
Why am I asking this? Just curious.

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How long, on average, does it take you to create a
medium-sized project, when working alone? By "medium"
I mean around 25-40 source files, with an ESLOC value
of around 700-1300. (effective source
lines of code, which does not
include comments, package statements, and optionally
involves imports (but in this case do not
include import statements because it only works if
you do it consistently)).Hi, I would call that a small project with bad design. It's rather seldom that you have classes with more than 500 lines, and that's including comments.
I think the average in my classes are about 200-300 lines of code.
By create I mean including the design, the coding,
and just enough testing to be able to distribute it
as a first-version beta application. It would also be
nice if you say how long these three stages takes you
individually. I usually don't do much design, I usually go with my gut feeling, and I rely on refactoring a lot.
I know this is a very general, and perhaps ambiguous
question, but try your best to answer. In addition to
your answer, can you post your programming experience
(i.e. whether you do it for a living, for a hobby, if
you've majored/minored CS, how long you've been
programming, etc.).
Why am I asking this? Just curious.You probably need to be a bit more specific. Are there techinques which are unknown to me involved? Is it a client application with UI, or is it a multithreaded server application etc etc.
Kaj