From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Subject: Re: grassroots level SPARK Initiation
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 19:14:20 +0300
Date: 2018-04-25T19:14:20+03:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fkbnqlFqcf8U1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <69c72041-01c1-4080-b4d8-8b3aeb113375@googlegroups.com>
On 18-04-25 18:25 , Mehdi Saada wrote:
> My problem is untold difficulty with algorithms. Even-though I may
> understand easily how they operate in natural language (say, binary
> search through a sorted container), I cannot code it: more than 25+
> lines (of myself), and I don't understand it anymore. Then I'm
> "forced" to tweak things here and there, until it works. I know I
> shouldn't debug like this, and I hate it too. especially not knowing
> what I do.
I find it helps me to describe in prose (in comments) exactly what every
variable, parameter, subprogram, loop, etc. is intended to do and
represent, including all the special cases (empty array, value not
found, etc.). Then you don't need to hold it all in your mind, but can
refer to the written descriptions as often as needed.
And the bonus is that the descriptions remain available for anyone
looking at or modifying the program, including a future version of
yourself...
--
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-25 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-23 14:05 grassroots level SPARK Initiation Mehdi Saada
2018-03-23 14:16 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-03-23 14:24 ` Bojan Bozovic
2018-03-23 16:33 ` Shark8
2018-04-25 15:02 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-04-25 15:25 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-04-25 16:14 ` Niklas Holsti [this message]
2018-04-26 1:59 ` Paul Rubin
2018-05-24 18:55 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-05-24 20:52 ` Paul Rubin
2018-05-24 23:50 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-05-25 1:09 ` Paul Rubin
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