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The Nature of Functions

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Animated Problem Solving

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This chapter introduces functions as an abstraction over expressions. It presents the first design recipes, top-down design, and bottom-up design.

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Morazán, M. (2022). The Nature of Functions. In: Animated Problem Solving. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85091-3_3

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