Computational Thinking: What’s Inside the Mind of a Programmer?
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Argues that programming is a cognitive invention like reading and arithmetic, not just math: cognitive neuroscience (brain imaging, behavioral tasks) shows a widespread "Christmas tree" activation across visual, memory and language areas and reduced activation on inductive/verbal tasks indicating efficiency. Defines computational thinking as the mental process of formulating procedures, building symbolic representations and debugging them; presents evidence of neural recycling where code becomes an automatized literacy that alters daily reasoning.
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