Computational Thinking

Computational Thinking

1. What is Computational Thinking?

   • Techniques to solve a complex problem
   • It Helps to plan a route to meet your friend
   • It's not accidently completing a video game level.

2. What is Decompsition?

   • It breaks down a problem into smaller part
   • It makes problems easier to solve
   • We decompose on a daily basis
   • Its like finding out how a bicycle works and looking into the detail at the different parts that make it up

3. What is pattern reconition?

   • It looks for simerlaties among and within the problem
   • Its like all parots have wings or all cars have wheels
   • If we don't look for patterns our solution may be insaficiant or incorrect

4. What is abstaction?

   • Its a process of filtering both irrelivent and unnecessary detail
   • Its not like this book is fun to read
   • A general characteristic may be some boats have sails

5. What are algorithms?

   • They're a set of step-by-step of instructions to resolve a problem
   • A flowchart is a diagram that represents algorithms
   • Psudocode is a way of describing a set of instructions that doesn't use specific syntax

6. What is Evaluation?

   • Its a process that allows us to make sure our solution is correct
   • Working through an algorithm with a pen and paper is called a dry run.
   • An efficient solution is heating some soup and buttering bread whilst soup is being heated
   • If a evaluations not done the solution may be incomplete