Design Recipes

Basic design recipe for Scheme functions

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

(1) Analyze the problem
- (1a) Understand the assignment informally
- (1b) Write a function contract
- (1c) Analyze the data types going in and out
- (1d) Write examples of how the function will be used, with the correct answers
(2) Write the function definition
- (2a) Skeleton
- (2b) Template
- (2c) Body
(3) Check your work
- (3a) Proofreading
- (3b) Syntax checking
- (3c) Testing

Last modified: Thu Jun 1 14:05:47 EDT 2000