a list of steps that you can follow to finish a task

break a problem down into smaller pieces

Pulling out specific differences to make one solution work for multiple problems

finding similarities between things

A piece of code that you can easily call over and over again

a place holder for a piece of information that can change

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Term	Definition
algorithm	a list of steps that you can follow to finish a task
decompose	break a problem down into smaller pieces
abstraction	Pulling out specific differences to make one solution work for multiple problems
pattern matching	finding similarities between things
function	A piece of code that you can easily call over and over again
variable	a place holder for a piece of information that can change