Answer these questions:
- Write an explanation of abstraction, including at least one example, in your own words.
- Answer
- Abstraction is the method of attaching meaning to a person, place, thing, or idea, such as the fact that the word chair is merely an abstraction for the object upon which a person sits.
- Give 2-3 examples of abstractions in every day life not identified in the lecture.
- Answer
- A painting as an abstraction of the painter's dream or a speech as an abstraction of a person's ideas.
- Consider an example of software, a mobile application, or a web site and explain how it is an abstraction
- Answer
- An app that shows a map based upon your geographic location is an abstraction of what it really looks like, etc.