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It frames benefits and risks of mass computing—automation, surveillance, infrastructure collapse, cyber conflict, data exploitation, advertising invasion, privacy loss, and social polarization. The book guides readers toward clear thinking about designing computers, software, and networks to maximize value while minimizing harm, and supports education choices for children facing a changing world.","Computational Thinking  \nThe MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series  \nA complete list of the titles in this series appears at the back of this book.  \nComputational Thinking  \nPeter J. Denning and Matti Tedre  \nThe MIT Press | Cambridge, Massachusetts | London, England  \n© 2019 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.  \nThis book was set in Chaparral Pro by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited. Printed and bound in the United States of America.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nNames: Denning, Peter J., 1942-author. | Tedre, Matti, author.  \nTitle: Computational thinking / Peter J. Denning and Matti Tedre.  \nDescription: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2019. | Series: The MIT press essential knowledge series | Includes bibliographical references and index.  \nIdentifiers: LCCN 2018044011 | ISBN 9780262536561 (pbk. : alk. paper)  \nSubjects: LCSH: Computer algorithms—Popular works. | Computer logic—Popular works. | Electronic data processing—Social aspects—Popular works.  \nClassification: LCC QA76.9.L63 D46 2019 | DDC 005.1—dc23 LC record available at  \n[https://lccn.loc.gov/2018044011](https://lccn.loc.gov/2018044011)  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nContents  \nSeries Foreword  \nPreface  \nAcknowledgments  \n1 What Is Computational Thinking?  \n2 Computational Methods  \n3 Computing Machines  \n4 Computer Science  \n5 Software Engineering  \n6 Designing for Humans  \n7 Computational Science  \n8 Teaching Computational Thinking for All  \n9 Future Computation  \nEpilogue: Lessons Learned  \nGlossary  \nNotes  \nReferences and Further Reading  \nIndex  \nSeries Foreword  \nThe MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers accessible, concise, beautifully produced pocket-size books on topics of current interest. Written by leading thinkers, the books in this series deliver expert overviews of subjects that range from the cultural and the historical to the scientific and the technical.  \nIn today’s era of instant information gratification, we have ready access to opinions, rationalizations, and superficial descriptions. Much harder to come by is the foundational knowledge that informs a principled understanding of the world. Essential Knowledge books fill that need. Synthesizing specialized subject matter for nonspecialists and engaging critical topics through fundamentals, each of these compact volumes offers readers a point of access to complex ideas.  \nBruce Tidor  \nProfessor of Biological Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology  \nPreface  \nA computer revolution is in full swing. The invasion of computing into every part of our lives has brought enormous benefits including email, internet, World Wide Web, Amazon’s e-commerce, Kahn Academy, Uber ’s taxi hailing, Google’s maps, trip navigators, smartphones, real-time translators, and apps by the millions. At the same time it has also brought enormous concerns including possible loss of jobs to automation, mass surveillance, collapse of critical infrastructure, cyber war, mass sales of personal data, invasions of advertising, loss of privacy, polarization of politics, loss of civility and respectful listening, and exacerbated income inequality.  \nA lot of people are having trouble coming to grips with all this. Can they reap the benefits without the downside costs? Can they lead a meaningful life if computerization suddenly threatens to obsolete a lifetime of learning? What should their children learn about computing to enable them to move and prosper in the new world?  \nComputational thinking is a new term that has recently entered public discourse as people struggle with these questions. 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