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Most of the programming work we do is corresponding to the 3rd stage(solving) from the article, right? It seems so.

• ivan_ah 10y ago
  I'd think it's more the 2nd stage: figuring out what to do, i.e. solving the problem. Once you've settled on the solution, typing it out, testing, and refactoring would be 3rd stage.
  • mkagenius 10y ago
    Yeah. I thought typing it out, testing, and refactoring took most of the time always.
    • jimmaswell 10y ago
      It depends on the problem. If you're doing something with the architecture already planned out for you or a simple script or change, that would be the case, but if you're figuring out how a whole theoretical system should come together or what the best way would be to make a certain class of component interact with others as a whole, the planning stage often takes longer, although including rearchitecting in "refactoring" can move some of this into that stage, if that's how you see it.