Top down design is primarily characterized by the first option you provided:
Top down design is a way of designing your program by starting with the biggest problem and breaking it down into smaller and smaller pieces that are easier to solve.
This approach involves starting with the highest level of abstraction and progressively refining and decomposing the system into smaller components or modules. Each of these components can be developed and understood more easily, leading to a structured and organized design process.
The other options do not accurately describe top down design:
- It is not limited to creating designs for web pages.
- It does not start with individual commands first.
- While loops and if statements can be used within the developed functions, they are not specifically tied to the concept of top down design itself.