[throwback]

Yeah, getting your arms around the big picture is difficult. It's stone age, but I still have to flowchart. I'm visual, and a flow chart lays it out in front of me so my brain can follow the paths. IBM assembler was a nightmare in school, but I still flow charted the whole thing. I had a flowchart that ran back and forth through the hallways of my townhouse. People thought I was nuts, but heck the code was close to functional on the first run because the underlying logic was sound. Unfortunately, my skill set is obsolete now, and I've run myself into a cul-de-sac.

[rarestia]

I’m a visual learner as well, but I tend to get lost in my head while I’m writing something. Object Oriented Programming was my downfall, but seeing how functional it is now, esp. in PHP, makes me wonder what I didn’t understand back then. Probably too much socializing and pot!

I have a lot of respect for folks like you. You have that resolve to stick to something. I suppose I’m much the same way with writing. I can start writing a short story or an essay and wind up with 50 pages of prose. I’m sure you could do the same with coding.