[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Real thought does include agendas, goals and self interest, I > "think." But real thought can be an imaginative, intuitive process, > super conscious, e.g., Bach, Einstein? She says "thinking recursively", "parallel processing", "interpreting code as data and data as code", and "type checking and a generalization of dimensional analysis", understanding the "virtues and dangers of aliasing" are computational thinking.
But then she goes on to say "Conceptualizing, not programming. Computer science is not computer programming. Thinking like a computer scientist means more than being able to program a computer. It requires thinking at multiple levels of abstraction." Now, I like Computer Scientists, really I do, but I have to say I have at least as much admiration for hackers who just invent and put aside all of this self-aggrandizing crap. All of those things (e.g recursively thinking, thinking at multiple levels of abstraction) any decent programmer thinks about every day, AND while exercising their imagination and intuition. Btw, today's Dilbert (http://www.dilbert.com) is a relevant snipe on a related species of the theory guy. ============================================================ 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
