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Thinking About Computation

Computer Science

Thinking About Computation

In the beginning were zeroes and ones, and the zeroes and ones were with Boolean operators, and the zeroes and ones and Boolean operators were two-element Boolean algebra. All computation was made through Boolean algebra, and without Boolean algebra was not any computation made that was made. There is only

Layers of Abstraction

Layers of Abstraction

> The essence of abstractions is preserving information that is relevant in a given context, and forgetting information that is irrelevant in that context. – John V. Guttag (from Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python [https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Computation-Programming-Using-Python/dp/0262519631] ) I started learning programming when I was 10, when