MODULE 1: COMPUTATIONAL THINKING

Computational thinking involves the expressing of and finding of solutions to problems in a way that a computer can interpret and execute.

Computational thinking is a dynamic process involving the following steps:

• DECOMPOSITION: A process of thinking about problems and breaking them down into smaller parts to make them easier to understand and solve

• PATTERN RECOGNITION: Recognition of similarities and characteristics in smaller parts of the de-composed problems to solve them more efficiently

• ASTRACTION: A process of filtering characteristics of patterns that we don’t need, in order to concentrate on those that contribute to the solution

• ALGORITHM: A way of defining the steps that we need to solve the problem