Is abstraction the key to computing?
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- 1 April 2007
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 50 (4), 36-42
- https://doi.org/10.1145/1232743.1232745
Abstract
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.Keywords
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