Big Ideas

Question 1

Turing Machine

Question 2

Boolean Logic

Question 3

Boolean Gates

Question 4

Expertise

“Turtles all the way down”; “Blackboxes all the way down”

Answer 4

Knowing which black boxes to open and which to close

Question 5

Blackbox

Answer 5

A thing that does something
Has an architecture: a collection of components that make up a technical artifact.
Has an algorithm: a series of steps that move information from one state to another

Question 6

Deblackboxing

Answer 6

The process of opening up a blackbox to uncover its architecture (pieces and parts; how and why it’s built like this) and its algorithm (what and how it does it; how inputs are transformed into outputs).

Question 7

Architecture

Answer 7

A collection of components that make up a technical artifact (pieces and parts; how and why it’s built like this).

Question 8

Algorithm

Answer 8

A series of steps that move information from one state to another (what and how it does it; how inputs are transformed into outputs).