Computation has changed the way people think, work, live, and play. Our methods for communicating, collaborating, and problem-solving, and doing business have changed and are changing due to innovations enabled by computing. Many innovations in other fields are fostered by advances in computing. Computational approaches lead to new understandings, new discoveries, and new disciplines. Students in this course will become familiar with the many ways in which computing enables innovation in other fields.
These big ideas form the intellectual foundation for the new course.
Though the Seven Big Ideas embody many computing concepts, they are not themselves "the content".