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Programming: Projects & Time Frames How much is too much, how little is too little, etc?

#1 User is offline Travelsonic 

Posted 04 August 2013 - 08:14 PM

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I wonder, say you are doing a PHP / SQL database project where you need to create a inventory system that involves 4 tables of information, each with 5 pieces of data for each record. Say you need to in this system add information, edit information, delete information, and print out the records in one table, or all tables.

How long would you say is reasonable for such a project to take / to complete if the following are true:
- The programmer is working alone
- The programmer hasn't touched HTML, SQL, PHP in 3+ years and needs to refresh himself a little first
- The programmer needs to learn how to set up a server on his own, which he hasn't done before
- He is using a small host just for the sake of testing things out that lately has been having issues with downtime (though to be fair it isn't hard to set up an Apache server to try this stuff out, and the programmer could/should have do that) contributing to stupid delays in the bugfixing, testing portion of the work
- Spending time outside of this to get my driver's license, practicing hours and hours etc.
- All of which is ON TOP OF designing the program - how everything works, all the scripts work, fit together, how the databases are set up... AS WELL AS the actual implementation of the code, testing everything debugging issues and tweaking that, etc?

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Posted 04 August 2013 - 08:36 PM

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A week or two.

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Posted 05 August 2013 - 05:45 AM

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Yeah, that sounds about right. Probably the longest part of the entire enterprise will be the data entry, unless it's already computerised.

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Posted 05 August 2013 - 10:04 AM

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I'd lean more towards two weeks than one. Shouldn't take too long to be reaquainted with HTML, SQL, and PHP... but I guess that DOES depend on how good your long term memory is... and how experienced you were with said languages before your hiatus.

As for setting up a server on your own, you said you've never done it before... that may take some more extra time.
For me I know something would take longer than the average person, but then again I'm recently married and am a (self-proclaimed) legend at the art of procrastination.

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