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Exercises in Programming Style, 2nd Edition
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Exercises in Programming Style, 2nd Edition

by Cristina Videira Lopes
July 2020
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
7h 8m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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CHAPTER 14

Abstract Things

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14.1Constraints

The larger problem is decomposed into abstract things that make sense for the problem domain.

Each abstract thing is described by what operations the things of that abstraction can eventually do.

Concrete things are then bound, somehow, to the abstractions; mechanisms for doing that vary.

The rest of the application uses the things, not by what they are, but by what they do in the abstract.

14.2A Program in This Style

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14.3Commentary

IN THIS STYLE, the problem is first divided as collections ...

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