Prototyping is good

As a developer that is in the early stages of my career I have quickly found that prototyping is king. Most of the time your going to be doing things you've never done before. So by making little sample applications "prototyping" the unknown you have a basis on which to start and most importantly you know what works and what doesn't. Trust me the extra time you spend prototyping will save you time in debugging and redeveloping your code.