Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing Erwig Martin
Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing Erwig Martin This easy-to-follow introduction to computer science reveals how familiar stories like Hansel and Gretel, Sherlock Holmes, and Harry…
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Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing Erwig Martin
This easy-to-follow introduction to computer science reveals how familiar stories like Hansel and Gretel, Sherlock Holmes, and Harry Potter illustrate the concepts and everyday relevance of computing.Picture a computer scientist, staring at a screen and clicking away frantically on a keyboard, hacking into a system, or perhaps developing an app. In Once Upon an Algorithm, Martin Erwig explains computation as something that takes place beyond electronic computers, and computer science as the study of systematic problem solving. Now delete that picture.
Getting up in the morning, for example: You get up, take a shower, get dressed, eat breakfast. Erwig points out that many daily activities involve problem solving. This simple daily routine solves a recurring problem through a series of well-defined steps.
In computer science, such a routine is called an
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