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What Is Computing All About?

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We begin our explorations of what computing is all about by studying a game. It’s a one-person domino game, so it is a little boring, for there is no opponent to beat. This version of the domino game is played with three differently configured pieces, each of which is available in unlimited quantity. The three pieces are as in Figure 1.1.

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van de Snepscheut, J.L.A. (1993). What Is Computing All About?. In: What Computing Is All About. Text and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2710-6_1

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