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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

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.

Related terms
Jackson Structured Programming (JSP)modular designstructured programmingtop-down programmingmodule
Term sub categories
Programming › design
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