
Students' Guide to
Program
Design
1.2 Structured programming
Structured programming assists the programmer to write effective
error-free programs. The original concept of structured programming
was devised in a paper published in 1964 in Italy by Böhm and
Jacopini. This paper established the idea of using a theorem based on
three control structures when designing programs. Since then, a
number of authors such as Edsger Dijkstra, Niklaus Wirth, Ed Yourdon
and Michael Jackson have developed the original concept further and
have contributed to the establishment of the popular term
structured
programming.
This term now refers not only to the Structur ...