On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 09:49 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Don't forget flow charts - you were always supposed to start by flow > charting the problem before generating any code. Hmm, wasn't quite the way we were taught. Although we were taught to use them, we generally started off with a design brief; then an outline of your variables, controls, and the basic premise behind your program's technique; then you started writing code using mnemonics (*); then you'd write out the op codes for those mnemonics, along with their data (*YOU* were the compiler); then you'd manually enter it into your microcomputer. If your program used complex conditionals, then you might bother with a flowchart where you're designing your program technique. But we usually did that in our heads. * mnemonics are abbreviations for CPU operational codes, like "LDA" for LoaD the following data into the A accumulator (pretty much like writing in assembler). -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
