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That's really interesting and helpful — thanks. I've heard CS people talk about abstraction a lot, but hadn't realized they were using the term in the way you d
by miriamkp 11y ago
That's really interesting and helpful — thanks. I've heard CS people talk about abstraction a lot, but hadn't realized they were using the term in the way you describe.
- acbart 11y agoI don't know how common my definition is among the CT community. Frustratingly, few researchers operationally define the term (cardinal sin in Education research!) and establish graded metrics based on it. I haven't met any other researchers who have resisted our definition, but there are other definitions. Repenning has one that is particularly... distinctive from my own: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/papers/PDF/SIGCSE10-repenning.pdf http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/papers/PDF/SIGCSE10-repenn...