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This book has a single purpose: to help everyone become a computational thinker. Computational thinking (CT) is thinking informed by the digital age, and a computational thinker is someone who can apply that thinking everywhere and anywhere. Through practical examples and easy-to-grasp terminology, this book is a guide to navigating the digital world and improving one’s efficiency, productivity, and success immediately.

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What Is Computational Thinking?

Thinking is and has always been a mental activity informed by experience, knowledge, and logic. Computational thinking (CT) is thinking informed by the computing age.

Knowledge and experience of computation will enhance thinking for all people in the digital age. And improved thinking will also lead to advances in every aspect of our lives, including computing as well as other areas of study. Thus, computational thinking is the mutual reinforcement of thinking and knowledge of computation in the digital age

Specifically, CT is the mental skill and orientation to apply fundamental concepts and reasoning, derived from modern computing and digital technologies, in all areas, including day-to-day activities.

CT involves our understanding of computing, its advantages, limitations, and potential problems. CT also encourages us to keep asking questions such as ``What if we automate this?'' ``What instructions and precautions would we need if we were asking young children to do this?'' ``How efficient is this?'' and ``What can go wrong with this?''

CT can expand our minds, help us solve problems, increase efficiency, avoid mistakes, and anticipate pitfalls, as well as interact and communicate better with others, people or machines. A computational thinker is anyone who has acquired the ability to use and apply CT. A computational thinker can not only adapt and function well in the digital world but also take good advantage of new technologies and even innovate and create new ways to do things. A CTer strives to apply CT everywhere everyday.