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Comment First Coding and the Importance of planning wall display
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Let’s Plan! Let’s Plan! It’s a simple process: It’s a simple process: Planning is important 1. Plan your logic—draw flow diagrams, write pseudocode. Planning is important 1. Plan your logic—draw flow diagrams, write pseudocode. 2. Turn your pseudocode into code comments. 2. Turn your pseudocode into code comments. 3. Write code between the comments. 3. Write code between the comments. Imagine what would happen if nobody ever 4. If you find yourself wring lots of code for one comment, you need to Imagine what would happen if nobody ever planned anything. 4. If you find yourself wring lots of code for one comment, you need to rethink your logic. planned anything. rethink your logic. Buildings would not stand up under their own Buildings would not stand up under their own weight, cars would not run and you couldn’t weight, cars would not run and you couldn’t What is pseudocode? watch TV as the satellites would have never What is pseudocode? watch TV as the satellites would have never le the ground! A plain Enlish description of the le the ground! A plain Enlish description of the Not a prey sight is it? We plan all function of a proram. It does not Not a prey sight is it? We plan all function of a proram. It does not contain syntax or other kinds of stuff! contain syntax or other kinds of stuff! implementation details. implementation details. Now let’s scale it back. Now let’s scale it back. Imaine you wrote a proram with no plannin. Imaine you wrote a proram with no plannin. You’d end up with poorly wrien code that may You’d end up with poorly wrien code that may not even work correctly and will be very difficult not even work correctly and will be very difficult for anyone, even you, to maintain or work with. for anyone, even you, to maintain or work with.
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Let’s Plan! Let’s Plan! It’s a simple process:
Let’s Plan! It’s a simple process:
Planning is important
It’s a simple process:
1. Plan your logic—draw flow diagrams, write pseudocode. Planning is important 1. Plan your logic—draw flow diagrams, write pseudocode. Planning is important 2. Turn your pseudocode into code comments. 2. Turn your pseudocode into code comments.
3. Write code between the comments. 3. Write code between the comments.
Imagine what would happen if nobody ever 4. If you find yourself wri&ng lots of code for one comment, you need to Imagine what would happen if nobody ever
planned anything.
4. If you find yourself wri&ng lots of code for one comment, you need to
rethink your logic. planned anything. rethink your logic. planned anything.
Buildings would not stand up under their own
rethink your logic.
Buildings would not stand up under their own
weight, cars would not run and you couldn’t weight, cars would not run and you couldn’t
What is pseudocode?
weight, cars would not run and you couldn’t
watch TV as the satellites would have never What is pseudocode? watch TV as the satellites would have never
le* the ground! A plain En�lish description of the
le* the ground! A plain En�lish description of the
le* the ground!
Not a pre-y sight is it? We plan all function of a pro�ram. It does not Not a pre-y sight is it? We plan all function of a pro�ram. It does not
contain syntax or other kinds of stuff!
contain syntax or other kinds of stuff!
contain syntax or other
implementation details. implementation details.
Now let’s scale it back. Now let’s scale it back. Now let’s scale it back.
Ima0ine you wrote a pro0ram with no plannin0. Ima0ine you wrote a pro0ram with no plannin0.
You’d end up with poorly wri-en code that may You’d end up with poorly wri-en code that may
not even work correctly and will be very difficult not even work correctly and will be very difficult
for anyone, even you, to maintain or work with. for anyone, even you, to maintain or work with.
