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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
Algorithmic Thinking   ◾     149  
the current temperature of the steak. Of course, the current temperature of
the steak will increase with the amount of time that the steak remains on
the grill. e loop is controlled by the logical condition “steakTemp < 135”
and the repeated action is expressed as “steakTemp ← steakTemp + 13”. In
other words, the loop repeatedly increases the steak temperature in incre-
ments of 13 degrees until the minimum desired temperature is attained.
We can gain further insight into the meaning of a while loop by list-
ing the sequence of individual actions that occur when the algorithm is
actually executed by a computer ...
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ISBN: 9781466587793