What Is Abstraction in Computer Science

What is this "abstraction" programmers talk about? Why is it important?

[lukaszstocki]

I think that was one of the best explanations of abstraction that I have seen. And I'm a programmer for about 10 years :) Good job!

[steverobertson]

Excellent explanation and examples. Thank you for making this video!

[NCSUPackfan]

I LOVE U!!! LITERALLY THE BEST, SIMPLE, STRAIGHT FORWARD DEFINITION

[wittyhumour]

Excellent Video on the topic of Abstraction. Even as a developer there are so many abstractions, abstractions like protocols, operating systems, back-end/front-end Frameworks. Often times it gets difficult to filter out what is relevant and what is not. And yes go deeper into the topic.

[rugbyreferee-smb]

The elevator interruption made me laugh out loud. Well done, excellent video.

[justcurious]

a few moths ago i saw a lecture about fundamentals of c++ and the teacher said when we are creating a variable we are abstracting a memory address his words kept looping in my head and
i never understood what did he mean with that but now after watching the half of your video it clicked in my head and it start making sense
"when we create a variable we are actually abstracting a memory address"
thanks for the amazing explanation

[bpccmathcalculusiihitch]

Well done, and entertaining! Thank you for the info and the interesting presentation style. (Loved the elevator interruptions. XD )

[themaninjork]

Very good! I knew a lot about abstraction in computer science, but you sumed it up nicely! Thanks

[jayron]

Missed your videos! Good to have you back.

[andresmunoz]

Yes please talk more about the topic when is a useful abstraction and when is an error, now in my company we have an abstraction that I think is harder to understand than useful but the tech lead thinks different so more about the topic would be really useful

[xenopholis]

I had been struggling with this concept wise and i am happy that I have clear understanding, Thank You

[poucxs]

I would love to see a video that goes deeper into the topic, thx for sharing this one already.

[rabitoblanco]

"The history of computing is the history of adding levels of abstraction..."
#brilliant

[normanfrancis]

You have done a good job!...Thank you. You should post another video on the details of abstraction.

[maxdetrickster]

One caveat only - these are not illusions, these are representations. Very different concepts.

[KazutoF]

Holy shit, my man u made everything so easy to understand. I thought this whole thing was way more complicated, but i guess not anymore. -CS Student

[davidwan]

this is understandable for ppl who studied programming. for a general public audience, they may not have to know the compiler part explanation or use the switch to explain, juz simply tell them abstraction means a template apply on many other code may be fine

[LucasRodrigues-ohjt]

Awesome video, very well structured and animated. Congratulations!

[andresrios]

so in other words abstraction is basiclly to hide codes o programing fuctiones, that allows the user to work more efficiently in the programing process, very interesting.
for one moment I thought that the definition would be more complicated.
thanks for the video it really helped a lot

[pouyam]

you explained it perfectly. very good balance between jokes and explanation