> 1. Come up with a solution to a problem before you start writing code, and think about which parts of the system that solution will impact. how could the pro

> 1. Come up with a solution to a problem before you start writing code, and think about which parts of the system that solution will impact. how could the programmer in the comic strip apply this advice? a lot of programming, possibly most of it, is about reading code and making sense of it, not writing it.