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Originally Posted by Dave Schwartz
When I think about it, I actually use a P&P method. That is, I manually handicap according to a set of rules I have created.
Of course, the software does so much of the grunt work that it takes like 25 seconds per race.
I never actually thought of it that way before this thread.
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I agree. I think most of us who have created programs/apps for racing, or really anything else, start with pencil and paper. You get ideas, you jot them down, you probably do some paper testing to get an idea if the idea has some merit. Then you get into organizing the ideas, start working on flow charts, etc., decide what the output will concern and what it should look like, etc., decide what steps should be done first, second .......last, then break down all the steps into workable chunks, etc.. Then finally you start programming the chunks and integrating them.
So, unless you start with some "core" program that was written by someone else, you have to start with pencil and paper.
