15-110: Principles of Computing - Week 4

Design Topics

• Levels of Abstraction

• Data Abstraction Hierarchy (see week 1)
• Functional Abstraction
• Top-Down Design
• Functional Decomposition
  
  
• The Software Development Process
  
  
• Analyze, Specify, Implement, Test, Maintain
• Specification vs Implementation

Readings from the book

Chapter 2 (pp. 38-40)
Chapter 3 (pp 44-52)

Suggested exercises from the book

None.