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Abstraction in Computer Science

Computer scientists use abstraction and communicate their solutions with the computer in some particular computer language. Abstraction allows program designers to separate categories and concepts from instances of implementation, so that they do not depend on concrete details of software or hardware, but on an abstract contract.

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