Becoming a Computational Thinker - Paul S Wang

Becoming a Computational Thinker

Success in the Digital Age

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
323 Seiten
2024
Chapman & Hall/CRC (Verlag)
978-1-032-56899-7 (ISBN)
65,95 inkl. MwSt
This book has a single purpose: to help everyone become a computational thinker. Through practical examples and easy-to-grasp terminology, this book is a guide to navigating the digital world and improving one’s efficiency, productivity, and success immediately.
This book has a single purpose: to help everyone become computational thinkers. Computational thinking (CT) is thinking informed by the digital age, and a computational thinker is someone who can apply that thinking everywhere and anywhere. Through practical examples and easy-to-grasp terminology, this book is a guide to navigating the digital world and improving one’s efficiency, productivity, and success immediately.

Given its pervasiveness, knowledge and experience of computation is a cornerstone of productivity, and improved thinking will lead to advances in every aspect of one’s life. In this way, CT can be thought of as the mutual reinforcement of thinking and knowledge of computation in the digital age. Comprising a rich collection of self-contained articles that can be read separately, and illustrated by pictures, images and article-end crossword puzzles, this book is an engaging and accessible route to ‘Becoming a Computational Thinker’ and achieving ‘Success in the Digital Age’.

Aimed at the general reader, this book provides insights that can be applied across the full spectrum of industries and practices, helping readers to not only adapt and function in the digital world but also take advantage of new technologies and even innovate new ways doing things.

Additional online resources are available at https://computize.org/CTer/

Paul S. Wang is an author, computer scientist, researcher, consultant, and academic. He is a Ph.D. and faculty from MIT with over 40 years of experience in teaching and book publishing. His current interest is in introducing Computational Thinking to all the people.

Preface

Computational Thinking: An Introduction

1. Everyday Computational Thinking Can Save Lives

2. Digital Technologies in the COVID-19 Fight

3. The Metamorphosis of TV

4. Smart About Smartphones

5. Cyber Security – How Not to Be a Fish

6. Computers: More Than Meets the Eye

7. Home Sweet Homepage :-)

8. Cloud Computing for Everyone

9. A Pattern Here and a Pattern There

10. AI: Aiming for Intelligence

11. Let’s Chat About AI

12. A World of 1’s and 0’s

13. Secrets of the Can-Do Machine

14. Encryption in the Digital Age

15. Bitcoin Is No Coin

16. Central Bank Digital Currency

17. Logic & Logical Thinking

18. 1 Plus 1 Equals 10

19. Cache – Efficiency Thinking

20. Time for Location, Location, Location

21. Face to Face with the Interface

22. Protocols Are Interface Rules

23. Computer Programming by Chickens and Rabbits

24. Don’t Stop – Do It Again!

25. Internet of What? Things!

26. Chips Are Everywhere

27. Problem Solving: Algorithmic & Recursive

28. Problem Solving: Backtracking & Heuristics

29. Problem Solving: Paradigms & Applications

30. Parallel Computing: Ways to Cooperate

Becoming a Computational Thinker: A Summary

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 5 Tables, black and white; 100 Line drawings, color; 50 Line drawings, black and white; 87 Halftones, color; 187 Illustrations, color; 50 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 1910 g
Themenwelt Informatik Netzwerke Sicherheit / Firewall
Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Theorie / Studium
Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Web / Internet
ISBN-10 1-032-56899-2 / 1032568992
ISBN-13 978-1-032-56899-7 / 9781032568997
Zustand Neuware
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