2. Planning a structure

The ability to break down a task into smaller tasks is an essential skill in computer programming. As a programmer, you need to consider how you are going to structure the code.

A program that has no structure at all will be one of two things:

1. Very simple and it is obvious how it works.
2. Badly coded so it becomes difficult to understand how it works or to modify it later.

This is an example of the first kind:

               OUTPUT 'The colours of the rainbow are'
               OUTPUT 'red'
               OUTPUT 'orange'
               OUTPUT 'yellow'
               OUTPUT 'green'
               OUTPUT 'blue'
               OUTPUT 'indigo'
               OUTPUT 'violet'           

We have a Python demo of this here