Power Of Computational Thinking, The: Games, Magic And Puzzles To Help You Become A Computational Thinker

What a fabulous book! I'm training to teach computer science, and have been following the authors' articles on cs4fn.org for the last year. In terms of education, they're ahead of their time. At the moment, I don't think enough schools appreciate the importance of computational thinking across the curriculum, but in time they will. The schools that are switched on to it now will be leading the field in the coming years, and this book is the best starting point I've come across.

I was recommended this book by Amazon and it did not disappoint! A thought provoking and puzzling book that I'll be reading for a long time!

Excellent book, from excellent authors.

Ein wunderbar inspirierendes Buch, das informatisches Fachwissen in verständlicher und sehr bildhafter Sprache vermittelt. Mich hat es mitunter für die schulische Medienbildung sehr inspiriert. Fundamentale Ideen der Informatik sind in ihrem stabilen Kern recht einfach aufgebaut und haben über viele Jahrzehnte Bestand, auch wenn die Generationen von neueren schnelleren technologischen Entwicklungen sich einen rasanten Schlagabtausch liefern. Ich hoffe, dass das Buch eine grosse Leserschaft erreicht und dazu anregt die aktuellen bildungspolitischen Stossrichtungen nach "Tablets für Kindergarten und Grundschule" sehr kritisch und vorallem vor dem Hintergrund einer entwicklungsphasenabhängigen Entwicklung zu sehen. Die Autoren zeigen schön, wie sich hochwertige informatische Grundbildung begreifen lässt. Ganz ohne Strom und ohne Bildschirm.

I've always been obsessed with "thinking smart" and tried a lot:- mental models (e.g. Charles Munger thinking)- success thinking (haha, think and grow rich like thinking...)- logical thinking (mostly deductive and inductive reasoning)- strategic thinking (game theory, war...)- critical thinking- creative thinking- ....My personal (!) conclusion is that computational thinking beats it all by leaps and bounds. But, again my personal experience, I could not learn computational thinking through reading, dong puzzles, solving algorithms on paper, even working on complex Excel formulas.NOTHING WORKED for me except writing code (in my case Python).The topics in the book are great. Famous algorithms to AI chat robots. All amazing. But I cannot read text about those topics. I need code. And to be clear, not pseudocode. I need real code so I can test what I read. Anything else BORES me. I CANNOT read it.If you prefer no code, this book is AMAZING!If you need code (like me), this book is not for you.