Top Down Design makes it easier to solve a problem by:
a) Breaking the problem down into smaller parts
b) Starting your code from the first command
c) Starting with the biggest function and then moving to smaller ones
d) Making each function hold only one command

Use a physical stopwatch to record the length of time it takes to run the program. calculate the difference obtained by calls to the method system.currenttimemillis() just before the start of the algorithm and just after the end of the algorithm. calculate the difference obtained by calls to the method system.currenttimemillis() at the start of the program and at the end of the program so that the elapsed time includes the display of the result. use the value returned by the method system.currenttimemillis() just after the end of the algorithm as the elapsed time.