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Computational Thinking and Data Representations
Computational thinking involves representing real-world problems in a computational format. It is helpful for understanding why computation has become so useful. Computational representations relate a target domain to a representation domain where work is easier. They have advantages like automation, easy storage and transmission, and flexibility as computational representations of behavior can capture many kinds of behavior. Computational thinking is seeing how to create a computational representation of something of interest by identifying important things and behaviors. Common computational thinking patterns are useful in many situations.
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- 2. Computational Thinking and Representations Adaptedfrom Clayton Lewis
- 3. What is “computational thinking”? ●Way of thinking about problems that has evolved as computational methods have spread through activities of all kinds ● Helpful to understand why computation has become so useful!
- 4. A Slogan: “Computational systemsare representational systems” ● People use computers to represent all kinds of important stuff… ● … because computational representations have extremely valuable characteristics. ● But, what is a representation?
- 5. A Representational System ● Relatesa target domain of interest to a representation domain, in which work is easier to do in some way. ! ● Let’s look at a couple of examples
- 9. Advantages of Computational Representations ●automation replaces costly manual or mental operations with electronic operations ● computational representations can be stored and transmitted easily and cheaply ● computational representations of behavior have flexibility advantages… o many kinds of behavior can be captured
- 10. Computational Thinking… ● …is seeinghow to create a computational representation of something you are interested in ● key aspects are o identifying the important things in the situation o identifying their behaviors
- 11. Computational Thinking Patterns… ● …arecommon kinds of behavior that are useful in many different situations ● you’ll learn some of these patterns, how to recognize when they are useful, and how to make them work in the AgentSheets visual programming system.
- 12. They are partof a bigger picture: ● features of a situation you are interested in ! connect to ! ● computational things o data, programs
- 13. Some more examples ●social networking ! ● tracking 16th C European diplomats (Thea Lindquist) ! ● ant foraging ! ● ….
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