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Good programming is sometimes mostly thinking, because "no plan survives first contact with the enemy." Pragmatic programming is a judicious combination of plan
by ken47 2y ago
Good programming is sometimes mostly thinking, because "no plan survives first contact with the enemy." Pragmatic programming is a judicious combination of planning and putting code to IDE, with the balance adapting to the use case.
- datascienced 2y agoThe first run with the IDE is like completing a level of a game the first time. The second time it will be quicker. I agree we can expand thinking to “thinking with help from tools”.
- wruza 2y agoThis. Programming is mostly reconnaissance, not just thinking. If you don’t write code for days, you’re either fully aware of the problem surface or are just guessing it. There’s not much to think about in the latter case.