40 ratings — published 2012, avg rating 4.03 — An introduction to computational thinking that traces a genealogy beginning centuries before the digital computer. 2 ratings — The thirteen chapters start with an explanation of what is computational thinking, move through logical and algorithmic thinking, abstraction and modelling, to then focus on how to apply these concepts. Error rating book. 691 ratings — : A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom (Hardcover), Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide (Paperback), Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (ebook), Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Hardcover), A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra), Hello Ruby: Adventures in Coding (Hardcover), Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom (Paperback), Books on Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning. But what is computational thinking? https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/computational-thinking published, avg rating 4.03 — Mouseover for Online Attention Data. Along the way, they debunk inflated claims for CT and computation while making clear the power of CT in all its complexity and multiplicity. 175 ratings — published 2017, avg rating 3.92 — 721 ratings — Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. published 2009, avg rating 4.46 — published, avg rating 3.95 — 10,566 ratings — 'Computational Thinking is a sprint through the theoretical underpinnings of computation through to their application and the creation of software. 240 ratings — 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. Mathematically trained experts (known as “computers”) who performed complex calculations as teams engaged in CT long before electronic computers. More recently, “computational thinking” has become part of the K–12 curriculum. published 2014, avg rating 4.25 — 61 ratings — 109 ratings — avg rating 4.31 — published 2015, avg rating 4.18 — Computational Thinking. MIT Press Direct is a distinctive collection of influential MIT Press books curated for scholars and libraries worldwide. 76 ratings — Online Attention. 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. Small Arrow. By Peter J. Denning and Matti Tedre. 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I would recommend “Foundations of Logic and Theory of Computation”, 2nd edition, 2012, Sernadas team. 3,909 ratings — published, avg rating 4.27 — 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. Section 3 of Chapter 1 is, for example, “Inductive definitions as fixed-points” and Part II is “First-order predicate logic”. 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