Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!pdn!larry From: larry@pdn.UUCP (Larry Swift) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Basics of Program Design Message-ID: <3537@pdn.UUCP> Date: 21 Jun 88 12:33:03 GMT References: <900@td2cad.intel.com> Reply-To: larry@pdn.UUCP (0000-Larry Swift) Distribution: na Organization: Paradyne Corporation, Largo, Florida Lines: 15 In article <900@td2cad.intel.com> brister@td3cad.UUCP (James Brister) writes: >What I mean is: do experienced programmers usually write flow charts, >or pseudo code. Do they write the whole program out by hand first or >build it up in their favorite editor? Flow charts or state diagrams (I prefer the former) are better thought organizers, but are difficult to maintain, so pseudo code usually wins out. However, with flow charts it is difficult to forget about a path. Does ANYONE write code by hand, anymore? I doubt it. Larry Swift UUCP: uunet!pdn!larry Paradyne Corp., LF-207 Phone: (813) 530-8605 P. O. Box 2826 Largo, FL, 34649-9981 She's old and she's creaky, but she holds!