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Software development topics I've changed my mind on

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873 points belter | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 09:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ZaoLahma ◴[05 Feb 25 12:38 UTC] No.42947654[source]▶
> Most programming should be done long before a single line of code is written

Nah.

I (16+ years developer) prefer to iteratively go between coding and designing. It happens way too often that when you're coding, you stumble across something that makes you go "oh f me, that would NEVER work", which forces you to approach a problem entirely differently.

Quite often you also have eureka moments with better solutions that just would not have happened unless you had code in front of you, which again makes you approach the problem entirely differently.

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1. AnimalMuppet ◴[05 Feb 25 14:19 UTC] No.42948786[source]▶
Always think bigger picture than what you're immediately working on. (I don't mean that you can't ever just focus on the problem you're trying to solve for, say, hours. I mean you can't focus like that for the entire time you're in that development phase.)

Think about design and code (and functionality!) before you start coding. Think about design as well as code while you're coding. Think about design, code, and functionality while you're testing.