Design Recipes

Basic design recipe for Scheme functions

(or functions in most other languages, for that matter!)

Understand the assignment informally
Write a function contract, specifying what kind of information goes in and what kind comes out
Analyze the data types going in and out
Write examples of how your function will be used, with correct answers
Write the function's Skeleton
Choose and use an appropriate Template
Fill in the Function Body
Proofreading
Syntax checking
Testing

Last modified: Wed May 30 13:08:31 EDT 2001