Skeleton programming is a style of computer programming based on simple high-level program structures and dummy code.
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 expanded to fulfill the requirements for the project to a successively higher level of detail.
Program skeletons resemble to pseudo code, but allows parsing, compilation and testing of the code. Program skeletons are sometimes used for high-level descriptions of algorithms.
Program skeletons may also be utilized as a template that reflects syntax and structures commonly used in a wide class of problems.
Skeleting programs is utilized in the template method design pattern. See that article for example skeleton programs.
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