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The 5-step program development process
Every good program starts with a plan. Here are the five steps a professional programmer follows:
- Define and analyze the problem — understand what you need to build
- Design the algorithm — plan the solution step by step (flowchart / pseudocode)
- Write the code — translate your algorithm into C++
- Test the program — run it with known inputs and verify the output
- Document — add comments so others (and future you) understand the code