Recall

Abstraction is...

• The removal of unnecessary data

• Adding data to a problem

• The removal of important data

• I don't know

There is a new bar opening, what can be abstracted from the advertisement poster?

• Bar name

• Date of opening

• Location of the bar

• Who owns the bar

The breaking down of a problem is...

• Decomposition

• Abstraction

• Pattern Recognition

• Generalisation

Thinking in a sequence is...

• Thinking Abstractly

• Thinking Logically

• Thinking Procedurally

• Thinking Concurrently

Which of these is NOT a reusable component?

• Function

• Procedure

• Library

• Precondition

What is the first stage of thinking procedurally?

• Taking the problem defined by the user and breaking it down into its constituent parts

• Developing a solution

• Testing a solution

• Analysing a problem

What is the purpose of problem decomposition?

• To make complex problems easier to solve and more manageable by allowing tasks to be divided between a group of people according to individual skill sets.

• The process of separating ideas from specific instances of those ideas at work

• Any situation in the design or programming of a system when you would want more than one thing happening at the same time

• Letting the problem rot away

State another name given to top-down design.

• Stepwise refinement

• Problem Recognition

• Divide and Conquer

• Problem Decomposition

• Backtracking