updated: 2022-01-23_12:32:31-05:00


Levels of Abstraction

see also: Abstraction

Physical Level

  • What information do you want to store?
  • How is it going to be stored?
  • What information do I want?

Logical Level (Implementation Level)

  • What are the relationships in the data?
  • What data types? (string etc)

View Level

  • Application programs hide details of datatype
  • What is visible to the end user? What is hidden?