thanks jt , truer words haven't been said . my interest in mental models for software dev comes from not being able to relate to software with any physical phen

thanks jt , truer words haven't been said . my interest in mental models for software dev comes from not being able to relate to software with any physical phenomenon of giving instructions. I find that most difficult part of software development is knowing what your doing and knowing if it's useful at all to what you want to achieve.when these questions are answered I find that software development is just a matter of solidifying that understanding although this process of solidifying make take use of different software tools and proficiency of the tools is also a factor . I find that now days we forget about trying to understand what we want to accomplish and focus more on tools . i maybe wrong or to naive but I want to know if at all there is a way to stare at a problem and walk through a set of steps and come up with a mental model or a approximate picture of what we want to achieve .