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Imagine starting to build a video game the night before a science fair, only to realize the character controls take three days to program.
To keep projects on track, software engineers pair their flowcharts with an expected timeline that maps out how long each step will take.

The Four Stages of Coding

Every coded solution moves through four standard stages: planning, building logic, testing, and polishing.
A milestone is a major checkpoint that confirms one full stage is finished before you move to the next.
How do you connect these time estimates directly to the boxes in your flowchart?

Mapping Time to Flowchart Steps

In a flowchart, every process box can include an estimated time duration in hours or days.
A dependency means a specific task cannot start until the previous task finishes completely.
Once our flowchart reveals all task lengths and dependencies, how do we write the actual code step by step?

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