stepwise refinement
Top-down programming or stepwise refinement is a particular type of structured programming, where the overall problem is defined in simple terms and then split into a number of smaller tasks. Each of these tasks is successively split and refined until they are small enough to be understood and programmed.
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Jackson Structured Programming (JSP)
modular design
structured programming
top-down programming
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