Joel Spolsky's ""="">. is so well written I can't effectively abstract it - so here's the whole of his introduction: There's a key piece of magic in the engineering of the Internet which you rely on ...

The operations that may be performed on an ADT completely depend on the ADT’s purpose. For example, an ADT for a stack might include operations such as initialization, pushing data, popping data, ...

Software that translates a high-level request into the low-level commands required to perform the operation. The most common abstraction layer is the programming interface (API) between an application ...

Abstraction close abstractionThe process of extracting or withdrawing something. is the process of filtering out - essentially ignoring - the characteristics of problems that are not needed in order ...