We call that Abstraction. But it really just means telling the computer to focus on the essentials… Let’s say you wanted to start a dance troupe – and maybe you held the audition…at home.

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An abstract class is a template definition of methods and variables in a specific class, or category of objects. In programming, objects are units of code, and each object is made into a generic class ...

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 ...

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