Computational Thinking
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- Paperback
264 pages
- Release Date
14 May 2019
Summary
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 i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262536561 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262536560 |
| Author: | Peter J. Denning, Matti Tedre |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 14 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 242g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 127mm x 13mm |
| Series: | MIT Press Essential Knowledge series |
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About The Author
Peter J. Denning
Peter J. Denning is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He is the coauthor of The Innovator’s Way- Essential Practices for Successful Innovation and Great Principles of Computing, both published by the MIT Press.Matti Tedre is a Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Eastern Finland, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Systems Science at Stockholm University, and the author of The Science of Computing- Shaping a Discipline.
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