Is Abstraction the Key to Computing?
| Collection: | The Beauty and Joy of Computing |
| Source: | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1232743.1232745 |
| Format: | html |
| Description: | |
Article on abstraction and why it is important. - "Why is it that some software engineers and computer scientists are able to produce clear, elegant designs and programs, while others cannot? Is it possible to improve these skills through education and training? Critical to these questions is the notion of abstraction."
This item appears in:
Abstraction (Big Ideas)
Abstracting (Computational Thinking Practice)
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| Creator(s): | Jeff Kramer |
| Publisher: | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Subject: | programming, abstraction |
| Type: | Reading Assignment |
| Language: | en |
