2025-05-08 01:46 UTC
@maaikees@sw-development-is.social
As a non-programmer but early personal computer user (Osborne 1) I've always thought pseudocode , writing out the steps you want the program to do was the most important part. The rest is just translation from English (or whatever) to whatever programming language you are using.
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@tknarr@mstdn.social 2025-05-10 06:54
@the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca @maaikees@sw-development-is.social The most important part is figuring out what you want the software to do, accurately and unambiguously. Most people don't realize how much they omit from instructions on the assumption that either nothing will go wrong or you'll be able to improvise a response. Computers don't improvise, and Murphy is always waiting.