Re: Where to start!

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 -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com