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Abstraction and Automation

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AQA A-level Computer Science (7517) Paper 1, 4.4.1 Abstraction and automation — problem-solving, algorithms and pseudocode, the seven kinds of abstraction (representational, generalisation, information hiding, procedural, functional, data, problem abstraction/reduction), decomposition, compositio…

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  1. Do Now — Retrieval
  2. I-Do: Problem-Solving, and What Is an Algorithm?
  3. We-Do — Solve, Check, and Define
  4. I-Do: Pseudocode — the Standard Constructs
  5. I-Do: Hand-Tracing an Algorithm
  6. Hinge Check — What MUST an Algorithm Do?
  7. We-Do — Hand-Trace and Convert to Python
  8. I-Do: Correctness and Efficiency
  9. I-Do: Representational Abstraction
  10. I-Do: Abstraction by Generalisation
  11. Hinge Check — Representational vs Generalisation
  12. I-Do: How the Two Combine Into a Model
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