PROGRAMMING HINTS

• Before writing the script, write out an algorithm, or a simple block diagram of the steps you are trying to accomplish.
• Document with comment statements what you are doing.
• Author your script/program
• make it modular - in other words, create subroutines to complete different tasks, rather than one monstrous program/script that does it all
• Test it as it is built - test it frequently!!!  This makes debugging much, much easier.

last updated: 09/25/02