Is it good habit to program PHP with an aid notebook by your side to correct flaws or it's better from the head directly?

Question

If you haven't learned a language what'd be the best practice for small tasks coding?

Answer 1

I'm a big fan of coding with paper and pencil. It keeps me grounded when the IDE makes bad suggestions (especially auto-filled ones that don't make sense) or there's a bug in the color-coding. I know I can toggle all of those features off, but coding with pencil and paper encourages me to step back and reevaluate the situation to see if I might be the problem (and not the IDE). :)