Abstraction

• Abstraction is a primary guiding design principle

• Intellectual tool that allows us to focus on important, inherent properties and suppress unnecessary detail

• Permits separation of conceptual aspects of system from the implementation details

• Provides a model of behavior

• Allows postponement of design decisions

  • external/functional
  • structural/architectural
  • representational/algorithmic

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