Computational Thinking - (MIT Press Essential Knowledge) by Peter J Denning & Matti Tedre (Paperback)

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About the Book An introduction to computational thinking that traces a genealogy beginning centuries before the digital computer. Book Synopsis This pocket-sized introduction to computational thinking and problem-solving traces its genealogy 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 volu…