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Abstraction - unplugged activity

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    I
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    our lesson on abstraction uses the
    familiar concept at Mad Libs where you
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    basically insert have blank
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    in a story that can be filled with lots
    of different where
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    we take that idea challenge the kid to
    come up with their
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    own words for their own story and really
    explain
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    the concept of its actions it's all
    about functions
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    and how you can have a function like in
    the old McDonald
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    we have a structure for your chorus but
    something little changers
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    so you extract out that little thing
    that changes and you can fill it in with
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    your own word at the time
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    group but sometimes you have three words
    that team
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    and so you fill those in with three
    predators but still pretty helpful
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    you can happen one function handles
    block
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    different problem lot of times people
    alright separate functions for all those
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    problems
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    not realizing there's only one little
    difference I think they could just find
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    a way to handle that one little
    different
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    they could just be used one function
    over and over again instead of having
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    flight
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    function
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    the
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    the the
Title:
Abstraction - unplugged activity
Description:

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Video Language:
English, British
Duration:
01:22

English, British subtitles

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