Computational thinking

Computational thinking

1. Thinking Abstractly

   • It means removing the unnecessary parts of the problem and leaving the important details
   • This means identifying what is needed and what is not
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     • Allows you to make predictions
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     • Difficult to predict trends

2. Thinking Logically

   • Identifying when to make a decision
   • Knowing what that decision entails
   • knowing what comes after the decision
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     • Get an understanding of the complexity of the problem

3. Thinking Ahead

   • Knowing what to do to set up the system, inputs and outputs, and anything that can be reused
   • Identifying anything that is needed before starting
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     • Makes solving it more efficient
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     • Can be hard to implement when it is unpredictable
     • It needs to be correct for the instruction to be fetched

4. Thinking procedurally

   • Breakdown the problem into smaller problems
   • Figuring the order of how to solve the problem
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     • Sometimes it is not possible to split up the event

5. Thinking concurrently

   • Doing things simultaneously
   • Involves figuring out which parts of the problem can be tackled at the same time
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     • Speeds up fixing the problem
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     • Harder to program
     • Sometimes, it isn't needed