Computational Thinking: A Perspective on Computer Science

“The book companion website includes the course’s lecture and project slides as well as Go source code. … Xu and Zhang validate the view that it is indeed more concerned with … CS instruction itself and provides an effective framework for teaching the subject from introductory to advanced courses. Thus they agree with other notable CT researchers and practitioners, such as Denning and Tedre [1], and their textbook is a most valuable contribution to CS education.” (Harry J. Foxwell, Computing Reviews, October 12, 2022)

“The book has a companion website from which readers can pull down over 200 MB of zip files with lecture notes, lab notes … and project notes. This is a puzzling book in some respects. On the one hand itcovers basic concepts and terminology for the beginning student, yet on the other hand plunges into sophisticated topics without drawing a breadth. Likewise, it claims that programing experience is not a prerequisite … .” (Anthony J. Duben, Computing Reviews, August 30, 2022)

“The most preeminent characteristic of this book is its ‘thinking’-perspective, which the reader may or may not like, and which perhaps leads to a suboptimal arrangements of topics. … the material presented is impressive, and at least the fundamentals are covered in great detail.” (Dieter Riebesehl, zbMATH 1490.68001, 2022)