At 1:49 PM -0400 5/6/08, Robert Cummings wrote:
>On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 13:42 -0400, tedd wrote:
> > Rob, who I respect greatly, said that 90 percent of what you are
>> doing should be decided before you start programming. But, I never
>> work that way either.
>>
>> I always jump right in and use the computer to design stuff. I never
>> resort to making a story-book layout or poster board work-up or
>> anything like that. I just don't work that way.
>
>I don't do much of that either unless I want to sort some complex things
>out that aren't easy to visualize in my head. When I say 90% of your DB
>should be designed before you start writing code... well, I usually
>thinking about the create statements (I guess some people might call
>those code), not drawing charts :)

Occasionally I scribble down ideas I want to include, but normally I
just go right to the keyboard and outline what I want to do in the
comments of the code. I fill in the code later.

In school, my teachers wanted flow-charts with symbols on them -- but
considering we only had rocks to program with (i.e., one symbol),
there was not much difference between the flow-chart and the program.
So, I bypassed the design and went straight to programming. Old
habits die hard.

Cheers,

tedd

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