I remember the first time that I made a program, I was using Turing and had learnt a few methods so I jumped right in and made the program which happed to be a "hello world". Later on when bigger projects came up and I started using Java, I found it hard to actually just jump in and get a program to work, multiple revisions are needed before you get to the bottom of the stupid mistake you did on line whatever. I learnt the hard way that one must first plan out what one will do before one even touches the keyboard. As I said before you can plan a simple program in your mind but theres a limit to that.
This is when you sit your self down, whether it be at coffee shop, pub, at home, or in a park, take out your medium(for me its a white board, but it can be whatever you have at hand to write on) and think. Some of the things that you have to think about are:
What is your program supposed to do? *Very important
How your going to get your program to do what you want it to do?
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