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title: "Foundations"
teaching: 30
exercises: 15
questions:
- "What are the skills and practice that define computational thinking?"
objectives:
- "Understand what is meant by computational approaches"
- "Identify and use best practice in data structures"
keypoints:
- "Data structures should be consistent and predictable"
- "Consider using semantic elements or data identifiers to data directories"
- "Fit and adapt your data structure to your work"
- "Apply naming conventions to directories and file names to identify them, to create associations between data elements, and to assist with the long term readability and comprehension of your data structures"
---
This header is a suggestion for discussion. Title and Questions also appear on http://data-lessons.github.io/library-data-intro/ - see http://data-lessons.github.io/library-openrefine/ for example. Key Points are located in each episode at end of page.