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Software Approach, Top Down Design

One way of coding is to simply have a rough idea of what you want to do and then start typing away to produce one huge source file.

This is a very bad idea.

The resulting code is likely to have many issues with it that include:
  • Poorly documented code, so very hard to maintain and update
  • 'Spaghetti Code' - which means a tangled mess of jumps and loops all over the code, very hard for someone to understand. Even by the originial coder a few days later!
  • Duplication of code, so wasting memory and running speed
  • Very hard to develop by more than one person as there is only one file
  • Very hard to debug - the file either works of it doesn't


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