The Intro to Abstraction I Wish I'd Received by Stephanie Minn So much talk about good software revolves around finding the “right abstraction”. Even programming itself is an act of abstracting the world into some form of bits and bytes. If, like me, you missed out on a proper introduction to such a fundamental concept, this talk will teach you what abstraction is and why it’s important to software development. We’ll also dig into a real-world example of fighting a troublesome abstraction and learn strategies for identifying when one no longer works for you—the first step toward imagining new abstractions for your code to take shape.