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Or as Fred Brooks put it: " Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious." But to be fair, you need to be a pretty
by nonrandomstring 3y ago
Or as Fred Brooks put it:
" Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts;
they'll be obvious."
But to be fair, you need to be a pretty damn good comp sci person (and
actively thinking in algs and DS) to quickly look at DS and see the
"obvious" processing implied.
- sfn42 3y agoA problem I see a lot is when the flowcharts should be obvious, but aren't because whoever wrote the code didn't write the obvious solution. Instead they wrote a horrible buggy mess that tries (and usually fails at least a little) to do the same thing as the obvious solution but with much more, and more convoluted, code.