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Jackson structured programming

Jackson structured programming (JSP) is a method for structured programming developed by British software consultant Michael A. Jackson. It was described in his 1975 book Principles of Program Design. The technique of JSP is to analyze the data structures of the files that a program must read as input and produce as output, and then produce a program…

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Jackson structured programming → COBOL, He, In, Jackson, Jackson's, JSP, Michael, Principles, Program Design, Warnier/Orr

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Jackson structured programmingrelated to IntroductionMichael0.60section
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