Occasionally I will code that way when I'm fairly certain of what I'm doing but you have to be very careful that you're not painting yourself into a corner.

In my experience, new programmers tend to build a lot of structure for their code that it's not clear they even need yet or will ever need and then often end up solving a problem with much more code than was necessary. It's usually my advice to get something (anything) working end-to-end first and then expand on that rather than the more linear approach.