Ch.13 Computational Thinking and Programming Basics Concept
Question

What is abstraction?

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Focusing on relevant features while ignoring details that do not matter for the task.

Good abstraction reduces noise without losing the variables that change the answer.

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Abstraction: filter the essential, drop the rest

Focusing on relevant features while ignoring details that do not matter for the task; the trap is abstracting too much or too little.

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