Abstractions in programming, while hiding complexity and creating more distance to that machine code, help programmers get closer to the actual problems they’re trying to solve.

This quarter, Stanford’s Computer Science Department will implement “pair programming” in the introductory computer science (CS) courses CS 106A: Programming Methodology and CS 106B ...

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 ...

Abstract. The creative use of abstractions is central to computer science. But not all abstractions address the same kinds of problems. We identify four different reasons abstractions appear in ...

"Most of us don't even program in C, and then you're kind of higher and higher layers of abstraction. So to me, they will be ways that you will tell the computer what to do, right?

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 ...