Creative development is one of the big ideas of computer science. It has to do with collaboration, program design, and program development.
Collaboration
Collaboration is when two or more people work together on something. This can be anything, from a team of programmers working on a program at the same time, or one person giving another person ideas for how to write code. This is important because having one person programming a very large program would take way too much time, and collaborating will make it take shorter.
Program Design and Development
When somebody develops an idea for how to write a program, that is a part of creative development. There are multiple ways to create the same program, and it is up to the programmer which way they will take. A programmer would also use creative development when making an idea for what program they would create.
Relation to Computer Science
Without Creative Development, it would be very hard to develop anything. Every topic in Computer Science relates to creative development since everything we do relates to developing something creatively. Due to this, there is no topic in APCSP that can be covered that does not relate to this Big Idea, and every topic that will be covered here relates to it.