The importance of program design (Again)
By Ravenhawk | April 22, 2007
Now, this was a lesson I thought I’d learned. That is, until last week when we were given an assignment in CS 120 in which we did not have to program, but merely to design it. I scoffed, thinking this assignment would be easy. I wrote up what I thought to be a good design: A general outline of each function and struct I would require in the program and what they would do. However, having been told that the design was not to have any code in it, I didn’t opt to plan out how I was going to do most of those functions.
Most of them were simple but one, where I needed to do Bubble sorting, confused me completely for days. And so, when you’re planning you programs, remember that, while your design should be just that, a design, and not be filled like Psuedocode (Or actually code as mine usually were) they should explain exactly how you intend on doing things. That will make thinks much easier for you, and even more so for any partners or team mates you may have while programming.
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