INFO-I 101 Lecture 4: Informatics Lecture 4
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Document everything: can make sure people can repeat what you do, can track where something went wrong, 2. Identify specific problem that you want to solve: narrow the problem you want to solve down, choose something specific, want to be an expert in the area - research, ex. I want to cure world hunger : narrow it down find a certain area, find a specific tactic to focus on specific ways of working on overarching problem, 3. Analyze: sift through all information and data you have, find both pros and cons so you can combat negative things, 4. Formulate: start to formulate a solution or set of solutions, some problems have one solution, some have many, 5. Evaluate: look at all possible solutions and try to find what is best, 6. Test: does it work, need to test chosen solution, 7. Iterate (rinse & repeat if necessary: take results and update solution and retest it, 8.
