Simulations for Skills Training
Chapter 5: Thinking in Computer Terms
Overview:
Explains how the computer can process multimedia data, and helps you think in the new idiom. Uses basic arithmetic to illustrate the procedure and explain how the same ideas can be used to simulate more complex events, like physical motion and ordinary human behavior.
Chapter Topics:
Telling an Arithmetic Story
Arithmetic Conventions
General Conventions
Matching Expression and Intentions
Performing the Expressed Operations
Simulating Human Behavior
Delineating the System Mechanisms
Converting to the Computer
Exercises
Supplemental Reading