Computational Thinking

Question 1

Abstractly

Answer 1

Separate ideas from reality
Removal of unnecessary details
Highlight necessary details

Question 2

Thinking ahead

Answer 2

Maximise efficiency of code
Minimise errors
Preconditions, reusable program components and prefetching

Question 3

Thinking procedurally

Answer 3

Large complex task to manageable chunks

Question 4

Thinking logically

Answer 4

Identify points in solution where decision must be made

Question 5

Thinking concurrently

Answer 5

More than 1 process from program running seemingly simultaneously
Each process slice of processor time

Parallel:
More than 1 processor is executing separate instructions at same time

Question 6

Enumeration

Answer 6

Algorithm that performs exhaustive search

Question 7

Stepwise refinement / top down modular design

Answer 7

Large problem to small independent modules

Question 8

Pipelining

Answer 8

Large problem to small tasks

Overlap processing of tasks to speed up