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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
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Chapter 6
Modeling Solutions
e secret to lm is that it is an illusion.
GEORGE LUCAS
Life is full of models. Perhaps in your childhood you made plastic models
of cars or boats. Models are also used to show o new clothing designs.
Economists create models of nancial systems, and sociologists model
populations.
A model is nothing more than a replica or representation of some object
or system. Sometimes models are used to capture things too small, too
fast, or too distant to be understood in other ways. A toy model of the
planets of our solar system and a chemist’s three-dimensional model of
molecular structures are useful because they hel
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ISBN: 9781466587793