Computational Thinking

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Computational thinking means building executable models and iterating on them until their outputs are observable and falsifiable, not just writing code or learning syntax. Examples: a unit-mismatch causes the Mars Climate Orbiter loss of about $327.6M, medical-device software shocks a pregnant patient because tests omitted that case, teams use Jupyter notebooks for fast feedback and ADRs capture architecture decisions, and integration testing plus diverse test samples catch interface failures.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:50What computational thinking is not
3. 8:15Human communication history
4. 17:50Abstraction in problem-solving
5. 20:21Age of computability impact
6. 22:07Defining computational thinking
7. 24:33Poor computational thinking consequences
8. 26:42Knowledge transfer and onboarding
9. 28:08Ethical obligations in software
10. 30:37Q&A

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