English Dictionary: top-down design | by the DICT Development Group |
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
top-down design technique which aims to describe functionality at a very high level, then partition it repeatedly into more detailed levels one level at a time until the detail is sufficient to allow coding. This approach to software design probably originated at {IBM}, and grew out of {structured programming} practices. (1996-08-04) |