Chapter 2
Different Methods for Writing Programs
IN THIS CHAPTER
Spaghetti programming without a plan
Planning ahead with structured programming
Making user interfaces with event-driven programming
Organizing a program with object-oriented programming
Using protocol-oriented programming
Using design patterns
The goal of computer science is to find the best ways to write a program. The reality of computer science is that nobody really knows what they’re doing, so they’re making up stuff as they go along and pretending there’s a scientific basis for everything they do. The fact that multimillion-dollar programming projects routinely fall behind schedule and sometimes never work at all pretty much shows that computer programming is still less a science than an art.
Despite these problems, computer scientists are always searching for ways to make programming easier, faster, and more reliable ...
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