2016-new-coder-survey
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List of interesting facts
This issue is for project control purpose and it will be constantly updated. Latest website preview is here. Please, feel free to add some interesting facts. If you want to participate, you can find data here and questionnaire here. Also you can contribute to the project by creating D3 visualizations here. If you have any questions about data, you can ask them at issue #26. Leave your feedback and ideas about the next survey at issue #39.
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The list of interesting facts:
Are you already working as a software developer?
- It's the most answered question (99.5% respondents).
- 11% of respondents who code for less than 1 year already work as software developers.
- 24% of respondents with 5+ years of programming experience aren't working as soft devs.
About how many hours do you spend learning each week?
- Half of respondents spend on average 6 hours per week learning coding for less than a year.
- About 20% of respondents spend more than 20 hours per week learning coding.
- Only 9% of respondents spend at least 40 hours per week learning coding.
- Almost half (47%) of coders with 5+ years of experience who already work as software developers still spend at least 10 hours each week learning programming.
About how many months have you been programming for?
- The most popular answer is 12 months.
- 72% of respondents have less than 2 years of programming experience.
- One in ten respondents has 5 or more years of programming experience.
- Software developers with less than 1 year of experience tend to spend much more time studying programming rather than their experienced colleagues, while for respondents without software developer's job it's the opposite - with more experience they tend to spend more hours per week studying.
About how much money do you expect to earn per year at your first developer job (in US Dollars)?
- The most expected salary is $60K annually while the average expectation is $53,700.
- 9% of respondents are ready to work for $1,000 per month.
- And 9% of respondents expect to earn at least $90,000 per year at their first developer job.
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Are you already working as a software developer?
