Software that translates a high-level request into the low-level commands required to perform the operation. The most common abstraction layer is the programming interface (API) between an ...

FROM BARE METAL TO HIGH-LEVEL LANGUAGES. Before the emergence of high-level programming languages, machines were embedded with hardware-specific enabling languages designed for a specific logic.

The new high school AP Computer Science principles course more accurately reflects this important distinction by focusing on seven big ideas: Creativity, Abstraction, Data, Algorithms, Programming, ...

 Uche: While CS has, in the past, been seen as purely programming, AP CSP exposes students to the seven big ideas of computer science: creativity, abstraction, data, algorithms, programming, the ...