Why Do Programmers Use Multiple Screens????
In my experience there are two reasons for using multiple screens. First, it does have some tangible productivity benefits. Though, the higher resolution and larger screens of modern times makes possibly a bigger difference than multiple monitors. When I was first learning to code, my family had a Packard Bell computer with a 14 inch monitor. This was in the mid 90’s so the common resolution was something like 640 x 480 or 800 x 600. Writing code on a small monitor with very low resolution seems crazy now, but it wasn’t then. The way it worked is I would write code in Notepad, then switch to the Windows command line to run the compiler. Most of the time my code didn’t compile and I’d switch to Notepad to fix my code. Years later I put together my own computer with a 17″ monitor. I believe the resolution increased to 1024 x 768 or maybe even 1280x1024. That was a big step up. At that point it was far easier to run the compiler and the code editor side by side. Now, I’m...