In software engineering and computer science, abstraction is the process of generalizing concrete details, such as attributes, away from the study of...
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Abstractions are fundamental building blocks of computer science, enabling complex systems and ideas to be simplified into more manageable and relatable...
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PHP has a similar feature in the form of its $$var syntax. Abstraction (computer science) Autovivification Bounded pointer Linked data Magic cookie Weak...
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to it. Abstraction (computer science) Asynchronous I/O Bit banging Infinite loop Interrupt request (PC architecture) Integer (computer science) kqueue...
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facilitate interoperability and platform independence. In computer science, an abstraction layer is a generalization of a conceptual model or algorithm...
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Abstraction is a process where general rules and concepts are derived from the use and classifying of specific examples, literal (real or concrete) signifiers...
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programming language is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer. In contrast to low-level programming languages, it may...
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Abstraction may also refer to: Abstraction (art), art unconcerned with the literal depiction of things from the visible world Abstraction (computer science)...
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Fundamental areas of computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines...
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hacker culture. It teaches fundamental principles of computer programming, including recursion, abstraction, modularity, and programming language design and...
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formal systems, such as logic, mathematics, statistics, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, information theory, game theory, systems...
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In computer science, data (treated as singular, plural, or as a mass noun) is any sequence of one or more symbols; datum is a single symbol of data. Data...
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Lambda calculus (redirect from Lambda abstraction)
computer science. There is some uncertainty over the reason for Church's use of the Greek letter lambda (λ) as the notation for function-abstraction in...
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flash drive), etc. In certain computer science domains, such as operating systems or embedded systems, the abstractions have slightly different appearances...
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Knowledge Sharing" by Tom Gruber used ontology as a technical term in computer science closely related to earlier idea of semantic networks and taxonomies...
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In computer programming, a macro (short for "macro instruction"; from Greek μακρο- 'long, large') is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input...
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Barbara Liskov (category The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science laureates)
highest distinction in computer science. Liskov is one of the earliest women to have been granted a doctorate in computer science in the United States,...
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Function overloading (category Method (computer programming))
which method overload is chosen by the compiler. Abstraction (computer science) Constructor (computer science) Default argument Dynamic dispatch Factory method...
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Software design pattern (redirect from Design patterns (computer science))
others followed up on this work. Design patterns gained popularity in computer science after the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented...
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Counterexample-Guided Abstraction Refinement. International Conference on Computer Aided Verification CAV 2000: Computer Aided Verification. Lecture Notes in Computer Science...
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Cruelty of Really Teaching Computing Science" is a 1988 scholarly article by E. W. Dijkstra which argues that computer programming should be understood as...
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abstract machines, a quantum computer holds the most promise for revolutionizing computing. Logic gates are a common abstraction which can apply to most of...
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A leaky abstraction in software development refers to a design flaw where an abstraction, intended to simplify and hide the underlying complexity of a...
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Kernel (operating system) (redirect from Kernel computer science)
adequate security policies at the application abstraction level. In fact, a common misconception in computer security is that any security policy can be...
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In computer science, a record (also called a structure, struct, user-defined type (UDT), or compound data type) is a composite data structure – a collection...
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1023/A:1010000313106. ISSN 1573-0557. S2CID 14124601. Tucker, Allen B. (2004). Computer Science Handbook (2nd ed.). Taylor & Francis. pp. 91–. ISBN 978-1-58488-360-9...
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The Berkeley Lazy Abstraction Software verification Tool (BLAST) is a software model checking tool for C programs. The task addressed by BLAST is the...
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In computer science, metalinguistic abstraction is the process of solving complex problems by creating a new language or vocabulary to better understand...
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of data structures and abstraction, but these topics were not covered to the extent that they were covered in AP Computer Science AB. The Microsoft-sponsored...
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In computer science and computer engineering, computer architecture is the structure of a computer system made from component parts. It can sometimes...
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