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A good programmer will never sit down and just start typing. They will think long and hard about the problem and THEN basically just dump the finished program from the brain and into the computer. To an observer, this may seem like "ideas flowing magically" but those ideas have already been through a complicated thought process.

Only if you've solved the same problem many times before can you go straight from task to solution, and most programmers would rather kill themselves with a rusty spoon than have to solve the exact same problem twice.

-- FloydATC

Time flies when you don't know what you're doing

In reply to Re: When does programming become automatic (if ever)? by FloydATC
in thread When does programming become automatic (if ever)? by nysus

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