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

Pizentios

i hate flow charts but for big projects i will use em cause it does help organize the way you want your program to work. Also, writting pseudo code before you start coding a part helps alot too.

As far as "helper software", Microsoft Visio isn't bad (hella expensive) but there are open source apps that do just as good of job. Dia (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/) is what i have been using latly and i like it.

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yeah , try coding a little bit of it and use UML to plan the rest of it. input readers at that level will only pick up shit you don't care about. the rest is gone....

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