Working out coding problems.

[The Hobo]

I asked this question awhile ago, but I'm curious about the answers again.

Sometimes, when faced with a programming problem -- something I can't quite figure out -- I'll pull out my pad of paper and work through the code on paper, sometimes in English, sometimes in the language itself.

I mostly do it with PHP coding, and sometimes C++ or C#, but I don't think I've ever done it with Visual Basic.

So I was wondering if anybody else has this habit, or am I just weird?

[hellswraith]

I have found myself using less and less paper to work out problems and more of doing it in my mind. I still haven't completely gotten rid of paper yet though. Just a couple days ago I was writing a pretty complex stored procedure down, and I was writing down test data and working through it and seeing if the logic was right. Paper is always useful.

[techgnome]

I do it a lot with database design.... and some logic coding.
I find that some times it helps to get things out on paper so see just how stupid it can really be!

[Edneeis]

I usually do for the architecture or flow of an application and it always ending up looking like a big mess to everyone but me. Just a bunch of circles and squares with arrows going here and there and a kind of pseudo code short hand. I'll have to find an entertaining one and post it.

[The Hobo]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who's whipped out a piece of paper.

[Radames]

I think yall getting old

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by Radames
I think yall getting old

??

[Lightning]

For more complex thing I always use a paper. The reason is simple, you can think an algorithm write it down, "debug" it, then code it. That is faster as thinking the algorithm in VB or C#, I think

[MartinLiss]

I often do flowcharting on paper before I code.

[james14]

i use paper because at school in study hall with nothing to do ill come up with this great idea for my apps. i find that alot easier because if you just go to code with an idea you might forget what you were supposed to be doing and get un organized. even at home i usually just outline it before i go on my comp to increase productivity and more time to do other stuff