Design your program from high-level and iterate through phases into low-level. So for instance, I want you to make a program that, lets say, is a customer database.
High level 0: I need a customer database
Level 1a: I have these storage requirements.
Level 1b: I need these inputs
Level 1c: I need data to exit the system in these ways.
Level 2: Diagram of work-flow processes (how it interacts with real people).
Level 3: Diagrams of how the database will look, identify what types of objects you will need to work with (of course, this specific action gears you into OOP design and not functional).
Level 4: Problems. Spend some time bad-mouthing everything and how it works, go back to level 2 and when you're tired of crying about the thing go onto the next level.
Level 5: Document how it works. This is your Manual.
Low Level 6: Write the code, and when you need guidance, RTFM.
Level 7: Throw the thing into the trash and start over, they wanted an inventory management system, another tribute to the synergistic perspicacity of business people and software engineering's verbal constipation.
Design your program from high-level and iterate through phases into low-level. So for instance, I want you to make a program that, lets say, is a customer database.
High level 0: I need a customer database
Level 1a: I have these storage requirements.
Level 1b: I need these inputs
Level 1c: I need data to exit the system in these ways.
Level 2: Diagram of work-flow processes (how it interacts with real people).
Level 3: Diagrams of how the database will look, identify what types of objects you will need to work with (of course, this specific action gears you into OOP design and not functional).
Level 4: Problems. Spend some time bad-mouthing everything and how it works, go back to level 2 and when you're tired of crying about the thing go onto the next level.
Level 5: Document how it works. This is your Manual.
Low Level 6: Write the code, and when you need guidance, RTFM.
Level 7: Throw the thing into the trash and start over, they wanted an inventory management system, another tribute to the synergistic perspicacity of business people and software engineering's verbal constipation.