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[Mitchfizz05]

If you want to program better, listen to this while you do your programming, whether it's LUA, PHP, Java anything!
It always helps me.

It also seems a little crazy.

[theoriginalbit]

Really the best way to program better is practise, and it is better in absolute silence, so you're mind doesn't draw conclusions between certain concepts and particular sounds. Otherwise for the most part you'll only recover that info when listening to the same sound... There has been studies that prove this!

[ikke009]

theoriginalbit, on 31 August 2013 - 11:14 AM, said:

Really the best way to program better is practise, and it is better in absolute silence, so you're mind doesn't draw conclusions between certain concepts and particular sounds. Otherwise for the most part you'll only recover that info when listening to the same sound... There has been studies that prove this!

That is true, but as a huge music lover I find that I can often conentrate better while or after listening to relaxing and ambient music. The music that mitch posted was already way too distracting for me, if I listen to a song like that I pretty much just stop doing whatever I was doing and just listen to the song.

For instance if I listen to God is an Astronaut or something like Bach's cello suites I can conentrate myself better than when working in "silence"(I find sounds like the airconditioning in my house or people walking around the house a lot more distracting than music, and in complete silence my tinnitus is a huge distraction)
Luckily there is a ton of music out there to help me concentrate in every mood. When I need to concentrate for several hours at a time I usually put on some non-distracting music to retain my concentration, and when I need to concentrate for an hour or less I sometimes like to listen to some music for 5-15 minutes to help get distractions out of my head.

[Mitchfizz05]

theoriginalbit, on 31 August 2013 - 11:14 AM, said:

Really the best way to program better is practise, and it is better in absolute silence, so you're mind doesn't draw conclusions between certain concepts and particular sounds. Otherwise for the most part you'll only recover that info when listening to the same sound... There has been studies that prove this!

When there is silence, I just stall and stop doing stuff and forget what I was doing, it's probably just a preference thing, and yeah, obviously you'll also need practice - you need practice for everything!

ikke009, on 01 September 2013 - 10:49 AM, said:

theoriginalbit, on 31 August 2013 - 11:14 AM, said:

Really the best way to program better is practise, and it is better in absolute silence, so you're mind doesn't draw conclusions between certain concepts and particular sounds. Otherwise for the most part you'll only recover that info when listening to the same sound... There has been studies that prove this!

That is true, but as a huge music lover I find that I can often conentrate better while or after listening to relaxing and ambient music. The music that mitch posted was already way too distracting for me, if I listen to a song like that I pretty much just stop doing whatever I was doing and just listen to the song.

For instance if I listen to God is an Astronaut or something like Bach's cello suites I can conentrate myself better than when working in "silence"(I find sounds like the airconditioning in my house or people walking around the house a lot more distracting than music, and in complete silence my tinnitus is a huge distraction)
Luckily there is a ton of music out there to help me concentrate in every mood. When I need to concentrate for several hours at a time I usually put on some non-distracting music to retain my concentration, and when I need to concentrate for an hour or less I sometimes like to listen to some music for 5-15 minutes to help get distractions out of my head.

So now I know what that ringing in my ears is called!

[theoriginalbit]

ikke009, on 01 September 2013 - 10:49 AM, said:

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mitchfizz05, on 01 September 2013 - 11:11 AM, said:

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Oh yeh! Don't get me wrong, I listen to music, I watch TV shows or movies that I've seen many times so I don't watch them, I just listen... I can't do anything productive in silence, so basically I just have background noise. I'm not saying don't do it, 'cause I do it myself, I'm just educating by saying that it can be very distracting, and when attempting to learn info can have a negative effect.

Lately I've been finding myself listening to Pandora radio, either newest hits or the dance channel, anything with a solid bass line, it helps me get in the zone... Songs that put me in the best of zones (and I've setup a playlist in iTunes with these for when I need to hardcore program), oddly enough are as follows (normally played in this order). http://puu.sh/4gtrf.png

EDIT: Also as you may see, I'm in hardcore programming mode, doing stuff for uni atm, this is my hourly break from it.

Edited by theoriginalbit, 01 September 2013 - 11:23 AM.