Computing Education Research Blog
JULY 12, 2021
Computational thinking and modeling which describes how data and algorithms are used to construct digital solutions and artifacts. computer systems, networking) used to construct digital solutions and artifacts. Technological knowledge and skills which describes the tools (e.g., These are critically important.
Computing Education Research Blog
JUNE 20, 2022
For example, small-scale research from 2011 highlighted 2 habits that ‘are at odds with the accepted practice of computer science’ ( footnote ). They may lead to a fine-grained approach to programming that does not use accepted programming constructs…conditional execution and bounded loops.”.
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Stephen Wolfram
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
And if we treat these as equivalent and merge them we now get: (The question of “state equivalence” is a subtle one, that ultimately depends on the operation of the observer, and how the observer constructs their perception of what’s going on. It’s a new kind of fundamentally multiway construct.
Stephen Wolfram
MARCH 5, 2024
What if all we ever want to know about are things that align with computational reducibility? A lot of science—and technology—has been constructed specifically around computationally reducible phenomena. And that’s for example why things like mathematical formulas have been able to be as successful in science as they have.
Stephen Wolfram
MARCH 7, 2022
When most working mathematicians do mathematics it seems to be typical for them to reason as if the constructs they’re dealing with (whether they be numbers or sets or whatever) are “real things”. And we can think of that ultimate machine code as operating on things that are in effect just abstract constructs—very much like in mathematics.
Stephen Wolfram
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. In some types of rules it’s basically always there , by construction. But one never quite gets there ; it always seems to need something extra. But the mystery of the Second Law has never gone away.
Stephen Wolfram
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Think of it as the entangled limit of everything that is computationally possible: the result of following all possible computational rules in all possible ways. It’s yet another surprising construct that’s arisen from our Physics Project. And it’s one that I think has extremely deep implications—both in science and beyond.
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