Thinking About The Solution ...

• The most common advice about programming is: “Reason the solution through first, code it later”

  • It is very easy to be distracted by the mechanism of writing a program and the IDE
  • Since the solution demands the reasoning effort no matter how you go about it -- reasoning before the coding or reasoning during the coding -- reasoning first allows you to think about the problem more abstractly

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Sub …

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Sub …

If … Then …

x = ...

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Think first, code later

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