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procedural abstraction

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procedural abstraction has advantage 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 computes 2001-08-30 14:57:04.0
hides the details of procedures
is a subtopic of 2.1 - What is Object Orientation?
is a kind of abstraction

Kinds of procedural abstraction :

method (7 kinds, 7 facts) - A concrete implementation of an operation; a procedure in a class
operation (3 kinds, 6 facts) - The abstract notion of something that can be done by one or more classes
stub (5 facts) - A piece of code that has the same interface (i.e. API) as the lower level layers, but which does not perform any real computations or manipulate any real data

procedural abstraction	has advantage 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 computes
	hides the details of procedures
	is a subtopic of 2.1 - What is Object Orientation?
	is a kind of abstraction