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Structure programming
- Thread starter Lauro
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Structured programming involves taking a single large task and breaking it into a group of intermediate pieces.
Then take each of those smaller intermediate pieces and continue breaking them into smaller groups of pieces (as needed) until you end up with the smallest functions that each do a single task. It's similar to making an outline for a speech.
Your code ends up looking like this:
main()
{
DoMainTask();
}
void DoMainTask()
{
DoTask1();
DoTask2();
}
void DoTask1()
{
printf{"this is Task 1, which is simpler than Task 2\n"
;
}
void DoTask2()
{
DoTask2SmallerThing1();
DoTask2SmallerThing2();
}
void DoTask2SmallerThing1()
{
printf("This is Task 2, smaller thing 1\n"
}
void DoTask2SmallerThing2()
{
printf("This is Task 2, smaller thing 2\n"
}
/* Hope this helps! */
Then take each of those smaller intermediate pieces and continue breaking them into smaller groups of pieces (as needed) until you end up with the smallest functions that each do a single task. It's similar to making an outline for a speech.
Your code ends up looking like this:
main()
{
DoMainTask();
}
void DoMainTask()
{
DoTask1();
DoTask2();
}
void DoTask1()
{
printf{"this is Task 1, which is simpler than Task 2\n"
;}
void DoTask2()
{
DoTask2SmallerThing1();
DoTask2SmallerThing2();
}
void DoTask2SmallerThing1()
{
printf("This is Task 2, smaller thing 1\n"
;}
void DoTask2SmallerThing2()
{
printf("This is Task 2, smaller thing 2\n"
;}
/* Hope this helps! */
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