Tony Duell wrote:
I have noticed one curious thing. The part I worry
about -- the bit I
think is going to cause problems -- is often trivial when I come to do
it. And I have problems in some totally different area. I guess it's
becuase I've thught a lot more about the bit I think is going to be hard.
Do others have this experioence?
Absolutely. Yes. Usually the part of the manual I read, and re-read
because I thought it was going to be a problem, usually turns out not to be.
David Agans, in "Debugging Rules", makes a simple but important point,
paraphrasing, "the area where you'll have problems is in the chapter you
skipped, the appendix you didn't read, the area you didn't understand,
and so on."
Often, for me, it's solving hte problems, and
fixing the device that's
more interesting than the device when I've fixed it.
Yup. It's not the destination, it's the journey!
Keith