Re:Abstraction: Not what you think it is
by pete_nic on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @11:03AM
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Non-developer here that likes to try to understand CS. I have latched onto this definition from Stanford:
“But fundamentally, computer science is a science of abstraction — creating the right model for thinking about a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.”
“But fundamentally, computer science is a science of abstraction — creating the right model for thinking about a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.”
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs/ch01.pdf