It depends on my mood and motivation as well, some days I don't touch a single line of code, other days I'll code all day nonstop. I never looked at it as an average, but if I had to, I would say 2.5 hours a day on average of raw coding on average. A lot of the work in development is also planning and research (both internet and in books) and that takes a lot of time too. If you program without ever stopping to read up on alternative methods to solve problem X or how to implement design Y more elegantly, you're doing it wrong IMHO.

It depends on my mood and motivation as well, some days I don't touch a single line of code, other days I'll code all day nonstop. I never looked at it as an average, but if I had to, I would say 2.5 hours a day on average of raw coding on average. A lot of the work in development is also research (both internet and in books) and that takes a lot of time too. If you program without ever stopping to read up on alternative methods to solve problem X or how to implement design Y more elegantly, you're doing it wrong IMHO.