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Subject facilitate by help have advantage have advantages group
data abstractionthe use of accessor methodsa programmer to cope with the complexity of data 
  • your programs become easier to read
  • your programs become easier to reuse
  • you can easily augment what a class provides
  • you can easily improve the way that data are stored
the pieces of data that describe some entity, so that programmers can manipulate that data as a unit
procedural abstraction  when using a certain procedure, a programmer does not need to worry about all the details of how it performs its computations; he or she only needs to know how to call it and what it computesprograms become
  • easier to reuse
  • easier to read
  • easier to debug
  • easier to augment
  • easier to improve
  • easier to adapt
 

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