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Computational Thinking for the Modern Problem Solver
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Computational Thinking for the Modern Problem Solver

by David Riley, Kenny A. Hunt
March 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
405 pages
12h 16m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Content preview from Computational Thinking for the Modern Problem Solver
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Chapter 4
Solving Problems
It’s not that I am so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
OBJECTIVES
To examine problem definition as the beginning of all good problem
solving
To explore functional requirements as the core of algorithmic prob-
lem definitions
To examine several ways that logical reasoning is applied to software
development, including cause-effect relationships, deductive reason-
ing, and inductive reasoning
To understand that programming is an activity that often relies upon
knowledge of patterns and that the five basic patterns of control
flow are sequences, selection, repetition, control abstra ...
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ISBN: 9781466587793