Abstraction is one of the four cornerstones of Computer Science. It involves filtering out – essentially, ignoring - the characteristics that we don't need in order to concentrate on those that ...

Computer science majors are ... computer organization and abstract data ... The major’s focus on programming skills prepares students to work as a computer system analyst, for example, ...

Using this abstraction opens up new possibilities for understanding molecular systems. For example, computer science distinguishes between two levels to describe a system's behaviour ...

A teenage programmer learns about abstraction, by thinking of what she needs to tell her computer to look for in selecting people for a dance audition. Suitable for teaching at KS3, KS4 and ...