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Computational Thinking Grady Booch IBM Fellow & Chief Scientist, Watson/M Email: gbooch@us.ibm.com Twitter: @grady_booch Web: computingthehumanexperience.com

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Computational Thinking Grady Booch IBM Fellow & Chief Scientist, Watson/M Email: gbooch@us.ibm.com Twitter: @grady_booch Web: computingthehumanexperience.com

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Computational thinking is the thought processes involved in formulating problems and their solutions so that the solutions are represented in a form that can be effectively carried out by an information processing agent. Jeannette Wing 24

To flourish in today’s world, computational thinking has to be a fundamental part of the way people think and understand the world. CMU Center for Computational Thinking 25

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Imagined Mathematical Symbolic Realities

The fundamental premise of science is that the cosmos is understandable; the fundamental premise of our domain is that the cosmos is computable.

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An assumption that the cosmos is discrete

The foundational reality of information

Data as an abstraction of reality

The power of algorithms to form abstractions

The importance of scale

The universality of computing

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The earliest ways of thinking evolved as a means of bringing more certainty and predictability to an uncertain and unpredictable world.

Scientific thinking evolved as a means of understanding the world.

Computational thinking has evolved as a means of controlling the world at a level of fidelity once relegated to the gods and goddesses of our myths.

Computational Thinking Grady Booch IBM Fellow & Chief Scientist for Software Engineering Email: gbooch@us.ibm.com Twitter: @grady_booch Web: computingthehumanexperience.com

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