Software development is not a new idea. Ada Lovelace is said to have written the first computer program in the mid-nineteenth century for the Analytical Engine, the first mechanical computer prototyped by Charles Babbage. Much time has passed since then, and software development has grown into what is arguably one of the largest contributors to the development of our species. Designing good software is hard. It involves taking into consideration all aspects of the application you need to build, and is complicated further by the need to be specific enough to your current requirements to get the job done, while being generic enough to address future.
