Tips for Creating Prototype “Study” Code

The good news about the kind of coding we’re suggesting is that it’s very similar to the kinds of coding that lots of agile-ish software development methodologies use at certain stages of on-the-job software development. We’ll try to stay methodology-agnostic, but what we will say is that we’re recommending that you write code that’s very similar to code you might write if you were doing rapid prototyping or if you were in the early stages of an iterative development process. We understand that our readers have a wide range of experience, so please don’t be offended if you know everything in the following list.

Your Goal Write down your goal for the prototype code you want to create. As you develop and ...

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