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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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236   ◾     Computational Thinking for the Modern Problem Solver
Recall the case study of the three friends that used a spreadsheet to ana-
lyze their social network list of friends. Once they learn about functions,
the three classmates rewrite their spreadsheet to exploit the sum and aver-
age functions. ey decide to replace the formula of D2 that previously
read =A2+B2+C2 with the more concise =SUM(A2:C2). e value pro-
duced by this formula is the sum of the cells in the range A2:C2. ey
also decide to replace the formula of E2 that previously read =D2/3 with
=AVERAGE(A2:C2) since the average function produces precisely the
value that the classmates ...
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ISBN: 9781466587793