http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_programming Stepwise refinement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-d

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_programming Stepwise refinement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-down_and_bottom-up_design http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-down_and_bottom-up_design Both were written about by Niklaus Wirth, (co-)inventor of Pascal, Modula, Oberon, etc.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth From the above page: http://sunnyday.mit.edu/16.355/wirth-refinement.html http://sunnyday.mit.edu/16.355/wirth-refinement.html Not a panacea, but useful, and can be used together with other techniques like OOP / OOAD.