omega tau 6 - Computational Thinking

[This is a posting of a previously released episode of omega tau. It had been released on Dec 21, 2008]

This episode is a discussion with Jeannette Wing on Computational Thinking. Citing the website of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Computational Thinking website, "computational thinking is a way of solving problems, designing systems, and understanding human behavior that draws on concepts fundamental to computer science.". As a consequence of computing being more and more important for today's science, "computational thinking has to be a fundamental part of the way people think and understand the world.". Jeannette is a leader in this field, and we discuss various aspect of the topic in this show: what computational thinking is, examples of its importance in various fields of science and strategies about how it can be taught to pupils, students and scientists.

• Jeannette's website
  
• The original CACM article that made me (Markus) aware of the topic
  
• Carnegie Mellon's Center for Computational Thinking
  
• Computer Science Teachers Association
  
• Computer Science Unplugged
  
• Peter Denning's Great Principles of Computing
  
• Markus' presentation on Fundamentals of Software Architecture
  

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