Yegor Bugayenko
Mark Guzdial
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Yegor Bugayenko ponders the dangers of "hazardous enthusiasm," while Mark Guzdial considers whether the need to teach computational thinking can be "designed away."
Index Terms
- Why programmers should curb their enthusiasm, and thinking about computational thinking
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Progress in computational thinking, and expanding the HPC community
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