西安理工大学《微机原理及应用A 》Computational Thinking.pdfVIP

Viewpoint Jeannette M. Wing Computational Thinking It represents a universally applicable attitude and skill set everyone, not just computer scientists, would be eager to learn and use. omputational thinking cisely. Stating the difficulty of a problem accounts builds on the power and for the underlying power of the machine—the com- Climits of computing puting device that will run the solution. We must processes, whether they are exe- consider the machine’s instruction set, its resource cuted by a human or by a constraints, and its operating environment. , machine. Computational In solving a problem efficiently, we might further methods and models give us ask whether an approximate solution is good the courage to solve prob- enough, whether we can use randomization to our lems and design systems that no one of us would advantage, and whether false positives or false nega- be capable of tackling alone. Computational think- tives are allowed. Computational thinking is refor- ing confronts the riddle of machine intelligence: mulating a seemingly difficult problem into one we What can humans do better than computers? and know how to solve, perhaps by reduction, embed- What can computers do better than humans? Most ding, transformation, or simulation. fundamentally it addresses the question: What is Computational thinking is thinking recursively