How to actually write a program?

[Jp Calderone]

Nick Evans wrote:
> Hello there,
> I have been on and off learning to code (with python being the second
> language I have worked on after a bit of BASIC). What I really want to know
> is, if you are going to actually write a program or a project of some sort,
> how do you actually start.
> 
> Picture this, you know what you want the program to do (its features), you
> have a possably rough idea of how the program will work. You have opened an
> empty text file and saved it as 'mykewlprogram.py' and now your sitting in
> front of an empty text file... Now then.... where do I start.
> 
> Any ideas about this problem :-)

   Close the file.  Open test_mykewlprogram.py and begin writing unit tests.

     http://www.extremeprogramming.org/

   The answer is much larger than this, of course.  So large I'm not 
even going to try to answer it more fully. :)

   Jp