Abstraction

• What is problem reduction/abstraction?

  process of generalising a problem to one that is already solved
• What is data abstraction?

  Allows you to separate the way that a data object is used
• What is functional abstraction

  Where the implementation details are hidden
• What is an example of where functional abstraction is commonly used?

  Built-in functions for programming languages
• What is procedural abstraction?

  Represents a computational method, programs should be generalised as far as possible
• What is information hiding?

  Using an interface to hide the complexities of a program