A new way of thinking about computational thinking
Owen L. Astrachan · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2009
Computational Thinking has emerged as an enduring metaphor in teaching and thinking about Computer Science since Jeanette Wing brought the term to our attention in a 2006 CACM article. Computational thinking involves abstraction, but a definition that is too abstract does not help in explaining computational thinking to someone who doesn't already have an intuitive idea of what it is: