nisim777

I'm fairly new to programming and am about to start a two player card game program (pazaak for those Knights of the Old Republic fans) as my first "major" project. I have it in my head how I want it to look and the coding shouldn't be too difficult but I would like some suggestions as far as the planning stage goes. I'm usually not one who plans ahead but because of the amount of logic that goes into programming I see the need for it.

What do you guys use when designing a program? Flowcharts? Outlines? Are there "helper" programs out there for program design just as there are helper programs out there for business design?

Would any of you mind sharing some of your program design outlines (or flowcharts, etc) so that I could get a good look at them and see how good, or just effective, design is done?

Thanks

Nisim