Computational thinking and thinking about computing

Computational thinking will influence everyone in every field of endeavour. This vision poses a new educational challenge for our society, especially for our children. In thinking about computing, we need to be attuned to the three drivers of our field: science, technology and society. Accelerating technological advances and monumental societal demands force us to revisit the most basic scientific questions of computing.

• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

• Publication date

  2008-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Computer Science, Philosophy, Engineering, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rsta.2008.0118PMID 18672462PMCID 2696102
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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