If you truely want software design skills firstly you need to master OO. Then you need to master design methods like UML http://www.uml.org and Class diagrams, Use case diagrams and flow control diagrams should also be used at the design stage.

Buy a book on Software engineering like Software Engineering by Ian Sommerville

Software Engineering techniques are mainly used for big projects and multiple programmers. The results can be useful for documentation purposes and for showing to clients.

They are usually not worth bothering with in the real world as they can consume more time than actually writing the program.

The argument is that good design save you time in the maintenance of large projects.


NOTE: software design in general is not condusive to the dual perl mantras of lazyness and expediance :)

In reply to Re: From the Void and into the Light... by hakkr
in thread From the Void and into the Light... by Dogma

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