Design recipe for Scheme programs, version 1

Analysis and design (i.e. "decide what you want to do")

1. Understand the assignment informally
2. Write a function contract, specifying what kind of information goes in and what kind comes out
3. Write examples of how your function will be used, with correct answers

Implementation ("do it")

4. Write the function's Skeleton
5. Fill in the Function Body

Correctness checking ("check that you did it right")

6. Testing and debugging

For the next elaboration of this, see version 2.

See also Karen North's version of this recipe.