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Solution trees in the program design process

Solution trees in the program design process SOLUTION TREES IN THE PROGRAM DESIGN PROCES S William J . Collin s Computer Science Departmen t Salisbury State Colleg e Salisbury, M A Introductio n Designing a program i s Programming is the design and coding of computer programs . program ”it is also more difficult t o not only more difficult to accomplish than coding a When program design is taught, stepwise refinement often serves as a guidin g teach . The value of stepwise refinement is that we start with a simple statement o f principle . what is to be done and Rradually develop a sequence of statements that specify how to d o Flowcharting is not a helpful design tool since flowcharts and code are at the sam e it . The hierarchy of stepwise refinement is best captured with some sort of tre e level . structure, such as the one we now describe . Solution Tree s Th e A solution tree depicts the development of an algorithm by stepwise refinement . This root is then refine d root consists of a simple statement of what is to be done . Each of these nodes is further refined and ne w http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Association for Computing Machinery

Solution trees in the program design process

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin , Volume 16 (2) – Jun 1, 1984

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Association for Computing Machinery
Copyright
Copyright © 1984 by ACM Inc.
ISSN
0097-8418
DOI
10.1145/989341.989354
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Abstract

SOLUTION TREES IN THE PROGRAM DESIGN PROCES S William J . Collin s Computer Science Departmen t Salisbury State Colleg e Salisbury, M A Introductio n Designing a program i s Programming is the design and coding of computer programs . program ”it is also more difficult t o not only more difficult to accomplish than coding a When program design is taught, stepwise refinement often serves as a guidin g teach . The value of stepwise refinement is that we start with a simple statement o f principle . what is to be done and Rradually develop a sequence of statements that specify how to d o Flowcharting is not a helpful design tool since flowcharts and code are at the sam e it . The hierarchy of stepwise refinement is best captured with some sort of tre e level . structure, such as the one we now describe . Solution Tree s Th e A solution tree depicts the development of an algorithm by stepwise refinement . This root is then refine d root consists of a simple statement of what is to be done . Each of these nodes is further refined and ne w

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ACM SIGCSE BulletinAssociation for Computing Machinery

Published: Jun 1, 1984

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