Piero Campanelli wrote:

> Developing with Squeak (and with Smalltalk) are you following this cycle ?
> 1. A little brainstorming
> 2. A little design
> 3. Implement a roughly design ...trying to figure out basic design
> 4. Refactoring: goto 2 and sometime goto 1

That's what smalltalk is made for ;-)

In my experience it usually takes 3-4 iterations, each one taking longer
and being more stable, until you reach a stable design.

The more experience you get the faster you move through the first one or
two cycles (if the problem isn't too hard).

And you really get up to speed when you are able to modify step 2 to

2. - design your own
   - or identify pattern and reuse or implement it, skip to 4

This way you don't need to go through the iterations.

As I said, that's from my experience.

Michael


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