I usually sit down and write something right away. As soon as I get stuck, then I think without coding, so to speak. The unfortunate byproduct of this is that

I usually sit down and write something right away. As soon as I get stuck, then I think without coding, so to speak. The unfortunate byproduct of this is that my code ends up looking very confusing, even to me, and I have to do some major cleanup on it before I let anyone else look at it.