>> Never start coding (making a solution) unless you fully understand the problem. > While I agree with this in general, I find that to reall fully understand

>> Never start coding (making a solution) unless you fully understand the problem. > While I agree with this in general, I find that to reall fully understand a problem, I need to attempt to code, or at least formulate, a solution to it. I'd go as far as to say that programming is a good medium for expressing poorly understood and sloppily formulated ideas. Oh, wait, someone else already said that...