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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
188 pages
7h 8m
English
Newnes
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GLOSSARY
algorithm An algorithm is a set of detailed, unambiguous and ordered
instructions developed to describe the processes necessary to
produce the desired output from the given input.
array A data structure which is made up of a number of variables
which all have the same type.
CASE control structure This structure extends the basic selection
control structure from a choice between two values to a choice from
multiple values.
cohesion
A
measure of the internal strength of a module ie how closely
the elements or statements of a module are associated with each
other. The higher the cohesion, the better the module.
control structures The
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