1.10 Chapter Summary

In this chapter you learned:

• about the nature of the problem solving enterprise
• how to refine the solution to problems
• what abstractions are, and about
• data representation abstractions (data structures)
  • (atomic and compound data, type, variables, constants)
• data manipulation abstractions (expression structures)
  • (expressions, precedence, compatibility)
• the computing apparatus itself (machine structures)
  • hardware (input, control, memory, output)
  • software (built-in, and user programmed)
  • programming notations
• the instruction and manipulation of the machine (program structures.)
  • sequence, selection, repetition, composition, and parallelism
  • how to represent solutions in pseudocode
  • syntax, semantics, and errors
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