Computational Thinking

Computational thinking is a process to solve problems or complete tasks.  It allows you to work out what to tell a computer to do.
Elements:
  • Decomposition: Breaking down data, processes, or problems into smaller parts
  • Pattern Recognition & Generalisation: Looking for patterns, similarities  and trends in data
  • Abstraction: Focus on the important, relevant info, ignoring the irrelevant. 
  • Algorithmic thinking: Developing the step by step instructions 
  • Data Representation:  How we represent information
  • ​Logical thinking: thinking in a disciplined manner based on observations, evidence and facts and the relationships between them
  • Evaluation: Does our solution work? Is it effective in time and cost (in the broad sense)? 
  • Debugging: Finding mistakes in a program and correcting them
      BBC What is Computational Thinking?
​Resources
What is the difference between programming and computational thinking? These articles help sort out the difference: