[nicoslepicos]

Definitely what you're saying. Thanks for adding even more deeper context. Accepting that back and forth: code, learn, code process.

And to your point too about first thinking about the conceptual model, agree that you should spend at least a bit of time before doing anything else. Thinking through your modeling is something that doesn't take that much time and has such huge payoffs in terms of avoiding pitfalls. But often times it's just funner to start writing code so people do that.

It's always saddening to see programmers just dive in and start coding without planning / thinking about the problem first.