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Introduction to computational thinking
Introduction to computational thinking

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Acknowledgements

This course was written by Paul Piwek (with input from Alistair Willis for Activities 1 and 3).

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Figure 3a: NASA

Figure 3b: NASA

Figure 7: © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2013

Figure 8: Professor Mark E. Bailey / Armagh Observatory

Figure 10: Courtesy of Dr David Goodchild

Figure 17: Courtesy of Tim Robinson

Videos of Jeannette Wing’s lecture in Section 3: © Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC)

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