Why computational thinking rather than complexity thinking or (egad) category thinking or political ethics or conflict resolution or good design or shop or....? What makes computational thinking more enabling (if not more "fundamental")?
ct Owen Densmore wrote: > I'm not sure how many of us were there, but I found the talk quite > thought provoking. > > An earlier version of her slides are here: > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/ct-and-tc-long.pdf > .. and a more narrative article is here: > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/publications/Wing06.pdf > .. and the "5 Deep Questions" article is here: > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/publications/Wing08.pdf > .. more on her home page: > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wing/ > > I think the fundamental problem she poses is: "What are the core > concepts in computing". Sort of searching for the spanning set for > educational purposes. > > I rather like the concept. Much different than "How do I program?" > and more like "What is computational epistemology?" > > I wish she had a blog/web presence. But she's quite busy and may not > find blogging natural to her way of doing things. Ken Iversion was > interested in this problem and wrote a few high-school textbooks using > APL. Ken was approaching the problem a bit differently: he wanted to > disambiguate standard mathematical notation and to use that to build a > concrete computational epistemology .. i.e. build the spanning set I > think Jeannette is interested in, although without the internet > components. > > -- Owen > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
