Is making flowcharts and algorithms necessary for beginners ?

Question

I'm the first one in the class to know how to code but our teacher told us that before coding you should know how to make algorithm and flowchart .My question is that ,can we skip these and jump directly to coding (Python) . I know the basics of coding so I'll not have trouble on learning 'em but I wanna learn more . I want to master C++ for game development .

Answer 1

Theoretically yes, but practically no. You should learn how to plan ahead. Sometimes it isn’t necessary, because you can think it through in your mind, but that skill of thinking it through in your mind is mostly acquired with thinking it through on paper. If you don’t learn how to plan, you could end up with messy code that constantly has to compensate for its not being uniformly designed.