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Design recipe for Scheme programs, version 2

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

    Analysis and design

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

    5. Coding

  5. Write the function's Skeleton
  6. Choose and use an appropriate Template
  7. Fill in the Function Body

    8. Testing & Debugging

  8. Testing
Last modified: Thu Mar 13 16:16:56 EST 2003
Stephen Bloch / sbloch@adelphi.edu