Annoying AS Terms

Question 1

Information Hiding

Answer 1

The process of hiding all details of an object that doesn’t contribute to the essential characteristics.

Question 2

Procedural Abstraction

Answer 2

Abstracting away the actual values used in a procedure and defining them in a mathematical way.

Question 3

Functional Abstraction

Answer 3

Breaking down a complex problem into a series of reusable functions

Question 4

Data Abstraction

Answer 4

Hiding how data is represented so that it is easier to build a new kind of data object

Question 5

Problem Abstraction

Answer 5

Details are removed until the problem is represented in a way that is possible to solve because the problem is reduced to one that has already been solved

Question 6

Representational Abstraction

Answer 6

Representation by removing unnecessary details so only the information that is needed to solve the problem is required.

Question 7

Abstraction by Generalisation

Answer 7

Grouping by common characteristics

Question 8

Decomposition

Answer 8

Breaking a problem into a number of sub-problems

Question 9

Procedural Decomposition

Answer 9

Breaking down a problem into smaller sub-problems, each of which solve an identifiable task and may be further subdivided.

Question 10

Composition

Answer 10

Combining procedures into compound procedures or building up a whole system from smaller units

Question 11

Automation

Answer 11

Models are put into action to solve problems