6.0001 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python
Age 7Sample7-year-old · 2nd grade

Toast is a recipe

From What is Computation? · Ana Bell & Eric Grimson

A computer only does the next exact step. It does not guess what you meant.

Original lecture on MIT OpenCourseWare

Before this sitting

Can you already do this?

Two quick checks on “you will be able to…”. Right on both and this sitting becomes mixed practice, not a lecture. Wrong is useful — we keep the full sitting.

  1. A computer is most like…

  2. A step is missing. The computer will…