I wrote some programs for learning abstract and concrete. At first I made a subroutine Average(). This routine calculates (a + b) / 2. The concept average is a special (concrete) case of a wider concept. Secondly, I made a subroutine Intermediate(). The concept of this routine is wider and more abstract than Average(). Intermediate() needs one more parameter k. And if k = 0.5, the result is the same as Average(). The output of this program is:
Average(a=10, b=20) = 15 Intermediate(a=10, b=20, k=0) = 10 Intermediate(a=10, b=20, k=0.25) = 12.50 Intermediate(a=10, b=20, k=0.50) = 15.00 Intermediate(a=10, b=20, k=0.75) = 17.50 Intermediate(a=10, b=20, k=1.00) = 20.00 Press any key to continue...
The code is here.
' Abstract and Concrete
' Version 0.1
' Copyright © 2016 Nonki Takahashi. The MIT License.
' Program ID HRX565
TextWindow
.
Title
=
"Abstract and Concrete 0.1"
' average value
a
=
10
b
=
20
Average
(
)
TextWindow
.
WriteLine
(
"Average(a="
+
a
+
", b="
+
b
+
") = "
+
c
)
' intermediate value
For
k
=
0
To
1
Step
0.25
Intermediate
(
)
TextWindow
.
WriteLine
(
"Intermediate(a="
+
a
+
", b="
+
b
+
", k="
+
k
+
") = "
+
c
)
EndFor
TextWindow
.
WriteLine
(
""
)
Sub
Average
' param a - the first value
' param b - the second value
' return c - the average of the given values
c
=
(
a
+
b
)
/
2
EndSub
Sub
Intermediate
' param a - the first value
' param b - the second value
' param k - ratio between a and b (0 ≦ k ≦ 1)
' return c - the intermediate value between a and b
c
=
a
*
(
1
-
k
)
+
b
*
k
EndSub
I sometimes use the code like Intermediate(). So I also wrote application samples of Intermediate() for points and colors. The program ID is HRX565-0. This program is also text base.
One more sample is HRX565-1. This is a graphical demo animation program for these concepts.