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  56 # Aims
  57
  58 Material aimed for two (three?) audiences
  59
  60 1. Teacher CPD
  61 2. In-school resources for children
  62 3. Outreach resources, mainly Bletchley Park
  63
  64 After your suggestions on how to extend these notes to hit these audiences
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  66 ---
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  68 # Programming != Computing
  69
  70 > Computational thinking is like architectural thinking. Programming is like
  71 > bricklaying.
  72
  73 This course will cover four things, in increasing order of importance.
  74
  75 1. Teach some ideas about ciphers and cryptanalysis.
  76 2. Show off some tools: IPython, git, doctest.
  77 3. Explore some different corners of Python (itertools, multiprocessing).
  78 4. Expose my thinking for how to solve these problems.
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