What are the five steps in programming?

1. Keep your programs simple to understand. do not be afraid to use some complicated if statements in your program. Unless there is a easier way

2. Have your programming documented, up-to-date to the present version of the installed code. 3. In the code use the programming languge's opportunity to comment on your code. Say what a section is for, what it does and why it is done so. 4. Try to avoid hard-coded machine-specific names in your code, so that your program wil be able to run on someone else's machine as well. 5. Remember that other people may not own your fancy combination of hard- and software, so develop your software not on the latest OS or last month's CPU.