I agree that sometimes just writing code is a good way to get started solving a problem however, I do not believe it is usually the best approach in general. Spending to much time planning can be a problem but many new programmers jump into writing something without even considering the problem much before hand. This approach very often leads to learning lessons the hard way, which I admit is not always a bad thing. In the long run though failing to learn to think and plan before you code can limit ones abilities.
Different problems call for different solutions and sometimes just jumping in and coding can be lots of fun but, on the other hand, some projects require a fair amount of problem understanding and planning. If you like to code but you don't enjoy hard problems (the kind that take real research) you eventually reach a ceiling in what you can do.
This response seems irrelevant. This is about a new programmer- not a project over ones head. The most important thing I did when learning = I sat down and wrote code, when I came across an issue, I learned how to fix it.
And because of that - it taught me to plan my code better as I went
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I agree that sometimes just writing code is a good way to get started solving a problem however, I do not believe it is usually the best approach in general. Spending to much time planning can be a problem but many new programmers jump into writing something without even considering the problem much before hand. This approach very often leads to learning lessons the hard way, which I admit is not always a bad thing. In the long run though failing to learn to think and plan before you code can limit ones abilities.
Different problems call for different solutions and sometimes just jumping in and coding can be lots of fun but, on the other hand, some projects require a fair amount of problem understanding and planning. If you like to code but you don't enjoy hard problems (the kind that take real research) you eventually reach a ceiling in what you can do.
This response seems irrelevant. This is about a new programmer- not a project over ones head. The most important thing I did when learning = I sat down and wrote code, when I came across an issue, I learned how to fix it. And because of that - it taught me to plan my code better as I went