Abstract
It represents a universally applicable attitude and skill set everyone, not just computer scientists, would be eager to learn and use.
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Computer science
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- 2006
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- article
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 33-35
- Citations
- 6550
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Jeannette M. Wing
(2006).
Computational thinking.
Communications of the ACM
, 49
(3)
, 33-35.
https://doi.org/10.1145/1118178.1118215
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- DOI
- 10.1145/1118178.1118215