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Chapter 19 - Concept Summary¶

Chapter 19 included the following concepts from computing.

Abstraction - Abstraction is used to remove unnecessary details. For example, after you create a procedure or function and test it, you can call it without having to think about how it works.
Conditional - A conditional allows for code to be executed when a condition is true.
Halting Problem - Alan Turing proved that it is not possible to decide algorithmically whether a given Turing machine will ever halt.
Turing Machine - A Turing machine is a theoretical computer that can read instructions from a tape and write results to the tape.

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