Bad Choices

Zusatztext One of the more clever ways of introducing computational thinking to the general public Informationen zum Autor Ali Almossawi works on the Firefox team at Mozilla and is an alumnus of MIT's Engineering Systems Division (MS) and Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science (MS). Previous stints included working as a research associate at Harvard and as a collaborator at the MIT Media Lab. His writing has appeared in Wired and Scientific American . Klappentext Almossawi picks everyday tasks like sorting socks! discovering new music! and writing witty status updates and examines the most efficient ways to achieve them. Each short chapter! mercifully barren of headache-inducing formulas! spotlights different computer-science concepts that can be put to use in each situation! like context switching and linearithmic time.... Anyone with a high-school-level understanding of math or a penchant for logicpuzzles will appreciate this easily digestible primer on how little choices can make a big difference.

Product details

• Authors: Ali Almossawi
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2017
• EAN: 9781473650770
• ISBN: 978-1-4736-5077-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 237 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Millennium; Millennium Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Humour, satire, satirical comedy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)