Do you go through periods where the most important thing is thinking about code, rather than actually creating code?

I find that I tend to spend a lot of time reading code, reading books, and thinking about code, rather than writing code, especially during term. While I'm taking courses, most of the code I write is for assignments, which can be fun but just isn't the same, and at a certain point I tend to burn out on actual hacking. Somehow, when you've just spent eighteen of the last twenty-four hours debugging a race condition in your networks homework, debugging a race condition in your side project loses its appeal....

On the plus side, reading about coding tends to give you a broader knowledge of the art than just hacking away on whatever suits your fancy. And every once in a while, you'll read something that makes you drop the book and sprint to your keyboard.

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