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서명/저자사항 | Computational thinking/ Peter J. Denning and Matti Tedre. [electronic resource]. |
개인저자 | Denning, Peter J.,1942- author. Tedre, Matti,author, |
발행사항 | Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (272 pages): illustrations. |
총서사항 | MIT Press essential knowledge series |
기타형태 저록 | Print version: Denning, Peter J., 1942- author. Computational thinking 9780262536561 |
ISBN | 9780262353410 0262353415 |
요약 | An introduction to computational thinking that traces a genealogy beginning centuries before the digital computer. A few decades into the digital era, scientists discovered that thinking in terms of computation made possible an entirely new way of organizing scientific investigation; eventually, every field had a computational branch: computational physics, computational biology, computational sociology. More recently, "computational thinking" has become part of the K-12 curriculum. But what is computational thinking This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an accessible overview, tracing a genealogy that begins centuries before digital computers and portraying computational thinking as pioneers of computing have described it. The authors explain that computational thinking (CT) is not a set of concepts for programming; it is a way of thinking that is honed through practice: the mental skills for designing computations to do jobs for us, and for explaining and interpreting the world as a complex of information processes. Mathematically trained experts (known as "computers") who performed complex calculations as teams engaged in CT long before electronic computers. The authors identify six dimensions of today's highly developed CT--methods, machines, computing education, software engineering, computational science, and design--and cover each in a chapter. Along the way, they debunk inflated claims for CT and computation while making clear the power of CT in all its complexity and multiplicity. |
일반주제명 | Computer algorithms --Popular works. Computer logic --Popular works. Electronic data processing --Social aspects --Popular works. COMPUTERS / Computer Science. |
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