[Coco] A little more on manuals and developing new hardware/software

[Mark McDougall]

On 21/02/2014 1:33 AM, Bill Pierce wrote:

> I find that writing down
> my problems gives me a 2nd view as I will look at it differently from the
> documentation angle and see things I don't see when looking at the code.
> I have solved a lot of my programming problems in this manner.

I can definitely see how this helps. There have been numerous occasions 
where I've hit a brick wall trying to find either a way to solve a problem 
or find a particularly nasty bug. So I'll grab the ear of a colleague and 
start to explain the problem.

Then they'll either ask me a question or make a comment that will trigger 
that "duh" moment for me, or - more often than not - I'll stop mid-sentence 
because I've just realised the problem!

It's a very good tool to use!

Regards,

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|              Mark McDougall                | "Electrical Engineers do it
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