Book Reviews : Techniques of Program Structure and Design

Abstract

Structured programming, top-down design, modular programming, and structured testing are among the most important new methods in modern programming. Edward Yourdon, president of an international consulting firm, is a leading advocate of these methods which attempt to increase programmer productivity and specify proper techniques for designing, coding, debugging, and testing programs. Mr. Yourdon's new book is a complete description of all aspects of the modern programming process.

Software Design and Architecture The once and future focus of software engineering

“…Typified best, perhaps, by work in the 1970's and 80's by such authors as Yourdon [81,82], Jackson [41,43], and Parnas [61][62][63][64][65], this strand of work focuses on the first type of design discussed above, the design of software as the artifact of interest, and is an approach that states a principle, then prescribes how to design based on that principle.…”

Enterprise Architecture Theory

“…The data modeling techniques and system analysis and design methods developed and promulgated in the 1970s and 1980s by ideas like structured analysis and design methods (DeMarco, 1978;Yourdon, 1975), Entity-Relationship diagrams (Chen, 1976), and Information Engineering (Finkelstein and Martin, 1981) laid some of the foundations. The publication of John Zachman's framework for EA in 1987 provided the ontology to tie all the pieces together into the context of the whole enterprise.…”

Instructional strategies and tactics for the design of introductory computer programming courses in high school

“…The Expert approach in designing introductory programming courses is closely related to the ideas that originated within the discipline of structured programming (Dahl, Dijkstra and Hoare, 1972;Wirth, 1974;Yourdon, 1975). Originally, this discipline addressed itself to professional programmers.…”