Question

You use the concepts of abstraction and encapsulation every day. You may call it “understanding the bigger picture” or “seeing the forest for the trees.” It helps you manage the complexity of your tasks without getting bogged down in the details. Think about the ways in which you apply abstraction to your tasks or decisions. Think about the ways you apply encapsulation to your tasks and organizing your work. In the context of computer programming, abstraction requires you to eliminate detail from an object to identify its defining characteristics—the things that make the object “tick.”

Give an example that describes how you have used abstraction as a strategy and how it was beneficial to you. Be as specific as possible about the strategy and why you feel it worked well. How was encapsulation applied in your strategy?

Next, describe a situation in which abstraction or encapsulation may not yield the best results. After all, boiling a group of things down to their defining, component attributes may overlook unique and special characteristics of that group’s members, and this could lead to a less-than-ideal process or decision. Once again, be specific about your method and the results.

Answer 1

I am answering to all sub-parts in sequential manner:-

​​​​​​——> Example where I used abstraction as a strategy:-

​​​​​​- I volunteered for helping the people in need of medical emergency in rural areas and while helping I was instructed to look at the illness and help the respective person in making the person understand about what they need to do in order to receive the medical help and I wasn’t supposed to tell them about the reason or procedure of what is being done.

-This creates a lot of ease for the patients because they were not well versed with the terms used in medical field and ultimately the work went well.

-Here encapsulation was applied by providing the patients the steps they need to take and the data/information they need to submit -these two tasks were done simultaneously by the volunteers and hence this task encapsulated major task in one step.

——>Abstraction or encapsulation doesn’t not yield well in the case when the patient needs to consult a doctor for curing the sickness and the doctor just tells the patient about the medicines which they need to take and the tests or surgeries they need to go through.

-Reason of this not being a good strategy is that the patient needs to understand the cause of the ailment/sickness and also needs to understand why the surgery or tests are being done.Without the correct knowledge , the patient might continue doing the same activity which would have been the cause.