Suitable for teaching 14-16s. A teenage programmer learns the basics of abstraction, by thinking about what she needs to tell her computer to look for when selecting the right people for a dance audition. Subscribe for more Computer Science clips from BBC Teach on Mondays when we have them in: http://bit.ly/BBCSubscribeTeach If you found this video helpful, give it a like. Share it with someone. Add the video to your own teaching playlists. Create an account, subscribe to the channel and create playlists for different age groups, sets and syllabuses. ===================== A teenage programmer finds out how to use abstraction in programming, by giving instructions to her "computer" - a human figure with a monitor for a head. Abstraction means telling a computer what information is important and what isn't. She asks him to let people in for a dance audition, only choosing those who can dance and want to dance. Because she doesn't specify in her code that the dancers have to be human,