Abstraction - unplugged activity

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our lesson on abstraction uses the
familiar concept at Mad Libs where you

basically insert have blank

in a story that can be filled with lots
of different where

we take that idea challenge the kid to
come up with their

own words for their own story and really
explain

the concept of its actions it's all
about functions

and how you can have a function like in
the old McDonald

we have a structure for your chorus but
something little changers

so you extract out that little thing
that changes and you can fill it in with

your own word at the time

group but sometimes you have three words
that team

and so you fill those in with three
predators but still pretty helpful

you can happen one function handles
block

different problem lot of times people
alright separate functions for all those

problems

not realizing there's only one little
difference I think they could just find

a way to handle that one little
different

they could just be used one function
over and over again instead of having

flight

function

the

the the