meaning and limits of automation

reliable data transmission

Sending messages from one point to another.

What can be computed; limits of computing.

meaning and limits of computation

The working paraphrase definition of CT has expanded: “CT is the mental skills and practices for (1) designing computations that get computers to do jobs for us, and (2) explaining and interpreting the world as a complex of information processes.”

Computational thinking is the mental skills and practices for

• designing computations that get Computers to do jobs for us, and
• explaining and interpreting the world as a complex of information processes.

One oft-cited overview lists nine fundamental concepts as the core of CT:

• Abstraction;
• Data collection;
• Data analysis;
• Data representation;
• Algorithms and procedures;
• Problem decomposition;
• Automation;
• Parallelization; and
• Simulation

Computational Thinking, a K–12 education movement begun in 2006, has defined a curriculum to teach basic computing in pre-college schools. It has been dramatically more successful than prior computer literacy or fluency movements at convincing K–12 school teachers and boards to adopt a computer curriculum. Learning problem-solving with algorithms is seen widely as valuable for students. Hundreds of CT initiatives have blossomed around the world. By 2010, the movement settled on a definition of CT that can be paraphrased as “Designing computations that get computers to do jobs for us.”

Computational thinking is loosely defined as the habits of mind developed from designing programs, software packages, and computations performed by machines.

Multiple entities cooperating toward a single result.

building reliable software systems

performance prediction and capacity planning

The old definition of computer science - the study of phenomena surrounding computers - is now obsolete. Computing is the study of natural and artificial information processes.

Storing and retrieving information.

storage and retrieval of information