What is abstraction?

Abstraction is of the process of hiding unwanted details from the user. 

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Deepak Singh

  • Oct 26th, 2005
 

Abstraction is not a process of hiding unwanted details from the user. It is process to identify the relevant characteristic of a class. Th goal of abstraction is to isolate thos aspect that are important for some purpose and suppress those that are not important..

smithi

  • May 6th, 2006
 

abstraction refers to the act of representing essential features without including the background details.

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neetu

  • May 8th, 2006
 

thinking about the genreal commmon things forgetting specific details for a while

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Nitin

  • Mar 22nd, 2007
 

Abstraction is representing any real life concept in terms of codes. E.g. a real life customer can be represented as a customer object.

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litho45

  • Jul 28th, 2007
 

Abstraction is separating the logical properties from implementation details. For example driving the car is a logical property and design of the engine is the implementation detail.

Data Abstraction is process of separating the logical properties from its implementation. (ADT)

Param

  • Aug 29th, 2007
 

Abstraction refers to the act of representing essential features without including the background details.

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vamshi

  • Aug 31st, 2007
 

abstraction means hiding the data from the external and in c++ we can achieve abstraction by developing classes

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In object oriented design abstraction is the name given to the process by which you design a new data type that you and other developers can view them from a higher lvel of abstraction. The user of new data type is not worried about the details of implementations.

A new data type can be a structure or class. Creating a new data type by using structure is not a good thing to do in object oriented design. 

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yzesong

  • Aug 1st, 2009
 

There are two types of abstraction, data abstraction and function abstraction. Abstraction is to hide the data or function not needed for presentation.

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Fiza Ahmad

  • Sep 22nd, 2011
 

abstraction is a technique in which we construct a model of an entity based upon its essential characteristics and ignore the inessential details. The principle of abstraction also helps us in handling the inherent complexity of a system by allowing us to look at its important external characteristic, at the same time, hiding its inner complexity.

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ravi kumar

  • May 3rd, 2012
 

Abstraction is the process of hiding details from d external user..

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mahender reddy

  • May 21st, 2012
 

abstraction is the process of hiding the things which are not required and revealing the things which are required

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mukrram ur rahman

  • Dec 9th, 2012
 

Abstraction exactly involve the process of involving relevant things while ignoring the irrelevant things.

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Ramya

  • May 31st, 2013
 

mechanism of exposing only the interface and hiding the implementation data from user.

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