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Computational Thinking for the Modern Problem Solver
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Computational Thinking for the Modern Problem Solver

by David Riley, Kenny A. Hunt
March 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
405 pages
12h 16m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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e second step in top-down design is to consider each of the instruc-
tions from the top level and one by one rene each instruction into parts.
In our o-road vehicle example, drawing the grill involves headlights
and black grill openings that can be included to provide more detail.
Similarly, the tires, windshield, and auxiliary lights can be further rened.
Figure4.10 shows a suitable second-level algorithm.
Notice that top-down design produces an algorithm that is very much
like an outline. Instructions from higher levels are rened into more
detailed instructions that are indented beneath. We have chosen to num-
ber the algorithm parts a little dierently than standard ou ...
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ISBN: 9781466587793