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On 12/25/2012 1:32 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
...
>    But if you never did similar projects before, then either
>    let someone else do the design (who DID similar projects
>    before) or start to try to code and experience (more in a
>    bottom-up manner and with enough time for many refactorings
>    or rewrites) or start to read some books about the desing of
>    such projects (also do the exercises from the books).
>

I have a variant on this. I often don't actually write the code, but I
spend a lot of time imagining the outlines of the code. Especially if
I'm working in a language I know well, I can often think up mid-level
structures that I know I could program, if they turned out to be useful.
I then think of the high level design in terms of those mid-level
structures.

Patricia