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'''Skeleton programming''' is a style of [[computer programming]] based on simple high-level program structures and so called '''dummy code'''. Program skeletons resemble [[pseudocode]], but allows [[parsing]], [[compiler|compilation]] and testing of the code.

Dummy code is inserted in a [[Skeleton (computer science)|program skeleton]] to simulate processing and avoid [[compiler|compilation]] error messages. It may involve empty [[subroutine|function]] declarations, or functions that return a correct result only for a simple test case where the expected response of the code is known.

Skeleton programming facilitates a [[top-down]] design approach, where a partially-functional system with complete high-level structures is designed and coded, and this system is then progressively expanded to fulfill the requirements of the project.

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