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Students' Guide to Program Design
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Students' Guide to Program Design

by Lesley Anne Robertson
May 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
188 pages
7h 8m
English
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Program Design
possible to write any computer program by using only three basic
control structures. These control structures are:
1 Sequence
2 Selection, or IF-THEN-ELSE, and
3 Repetition, or DOWHILE
These control structures will be covered in detail in Chapter 2.
1.3 An
introduction
to
algorithms
and
pseudocode
Structured programming techniques require a program to be properly
designed before coding begins, and it is this design process which
results in the construction of an algorithm.
What is an algorithm?
An algorithm is like a recipe. It lists the steps involved in
accomplishing a
task.
It can be defined in programming terms as a set
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