[Tutor] Planning a program with algorithm?

[Alan G]

> The textbook "How to Design Programs" focuses on a design approach
to
> program construction.  The book's host language is Scheme, but I
feel a
> lot of the material is language agnostic and valuable to any
programmer:
>
>     http://www.htdp.org
>

I second the recommendation, but you do have to remember to ignore
the heavy use of recursion if you are working in Python. Otherwise
the basic concepts are very sound. And the formulistic approach to
designing a function is excellent.

Alan G.