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- 1What is computational thinking?A way of simply solving problems
- 2why do we need to think computationally?to solve problems quicker and more efficiently
- 3what is a complex problem?a problem with lots of steps or one where the answer doesn't come strait to your head
- 4to create a successful computer program how many computational thinking techniques are involved?Three
- 5what is decomposition?breaking down a problem into smaller parts.
- 6how often do we decompose problems?all the time, even when we don't know it
- 7why do we decompose problems?to make them easier and quicker to solve
- 8what is pattern recognition?pattern recognition is finding similarities and patterns within problemappen
- 9what may happen if we didn't look for patterns?we would need to work out more things and this would slow us down
- 10what is abstraction?filtering out unnecessary details from a problem
- 11what is a model?a general idea of the problem we are trying to solve
- 12what is an algorithm?a set of step by step instructions on how to solve a problem
- 13how can an algorithm be presented?as a flowchart
- 14what is a flowchart?a diagram of events
- 15why should we evaluate solutionsso that it isn't faulty
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