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Learn about alpha, beta, and final testing for test cases in computer science.

An in-depth lecture and PowerPoint slideshow on the history of computing can be found here. It gives an overview of the advances in science that made desktop computers possible, starting with the invention of counting, to the...

This short article clearly illustrates the need for teaching computational thinking in the schools. It lays out the foundation of teaching these skills across grade levels.

The concept of modeling sequences of random events using states and transitions between states became to known as Markov Chains. Introduction to Markov chains. Created by Brit Cruise.