On Systematic Program Design

Key lessons from this course include:

1. Recipes are extremely useful
2. Templates are extremely useful
3. Knowing what needs to be done NOW is extremely valuable
• It increases productivity tremendously
• Recipes and templates are what makes this possible 
4. Data design drives function design drives implementation
5. Being systematic comes from using good recipes and templates

Key programming practices:

1. Understand the information domain clearly
1. Draw diagrams
2. Write out examples
2. Map the information domain to data domain
3. Use check-expects / unit tests
4. Use wishes to track work outstanding

Key tools:

1. Recipes
2. Templates