Re:Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code
by HidyBush on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @05:00AM
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I mean, it's not really an amazing skill in my opinion. What's amazing about writing a high level explanation of how your program works, maybe with a few simple diagrams to show the reasoning behind it, and then writing a more detailed specification of what the program should do? It's basically a more comprehensive version of first writing the flow chart of your program in pseudocode with attached comments and then implementing it.
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It's easy to do it, but I have never really heard of anyone doing it successfully like this. Most programmers come up with a basic plan and then just start coding it and things evolve from there. As the saying going, "a battle plan never survives contact with the enemy."
I'm incredibly impressed with programmers that can visualize a large program and the end product actually resembles what they originally envisioned. That is a gift.