What are your planning practices?

Question

Coding is problem solving, and some problems are best solved on paper before putting it into code. I struggle with that part, and I end up constantly refactoring and rewriting my code because I don't have a clear sense of the problem or its solution. This gets frustrating, so I want to learn to plan better and optimise my workflow.

1. What planning guidelines can I follow?
2. How do you plan your program and solve your problem?
3. Do you use flow charts and pseudocode?

Answer 1

I personally take my project and split it into smaller parts. Then, I take those smaller parts and split them into even smaller parts. I do that until I can't divide them anymore so I get a large number of small codes that are easy to do and that, in the end, form a large code that seemed hard at first. It also makes you feel more confident when you see just how much progress you've made because when you have one big project it's either complete or not. However, when you split it into smaller codes, you see just how much you've made progress which boosts your confidence and pushes you through to the end of the project.