
PREFACE
With the increased popularity of programming courses in our
universities, colleges and technical institutions, a need has arisen for
an easy to read textbook on program design. There are already dozens
of introductory programming texts using specific languages such as
PASCAL, BASIC or COBOL. These texts, however, usually gloss over
the important step of designing a solution to a given programming
problem. Program design can be described as the development of a
solution algorithm, independent of language, which will be used for
translation into a specific programming language. Designing this
algorithm is seen as developing the framewor ...