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Planning your programming project

Programming is one of the most complex tasks that exits. You may have gained hacking skills through your programming career, you may be a good code maintainer or a networking geek, but it takes more than your programming skills to put codes that do complex jobs together. With my little programming knowledge, I wanted to make  a very simple mathematics game program with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Simple, I called it... I started it  without planning, believe me, it took me a whole month to complete this little thing. Well, I thought the reason why that took so long was because I was a biginner, but when a client brought a job specification that is similar or more complex than the maths program, I did it in two weeks without working round the clock. So, I realised what I was doing wrong, the specification my client brought was a detailed one and everything was on point and I also had a deadline which reminded me I wasn't joking. To make use of the new skill I ga...