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Computation and State Machines

April 19, 2008

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• Leslie Lamport

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I have long thought that computer science is about concepts, not languages. On a visit to the University of Lugano in 2006, the question arose of what that implied about how computer science should be taught. This is a first, tentative attempt at an answer.

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