Computational thinking

Resource Information

The work Computational thinking represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Forsyth County Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Computational thinking

Statement of responsibility

Peter J. Denning and Matti Tedre

Creator

• Denning, Peter J., 1942-

Contributor

• Tedre, Matti

Author

• Tedre, Matti
• Denning, Peter J., 1942-

Subject

• Computer logic -- Popular works
• Electronic data processing -- Social aspects
• Electronic data processing -- Social aspects -- Popular works
• Popular works
• trueComputer algorithms
• Computer algorithms -- Popular works
• Computer logic

Genre

• truePopular works

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• MIT Press essential knowledge series

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

005.1

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

QA76.9.L63

LC item number

D46 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The MIT press essential knowledge series

Target audience

adult