Computational thinking
This comprehensive online guide, provides a background to computational thinking which refers to the skills and approaches used in computing, programming, and digital solutions to analyse problems and determine how to solve them.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | 9-10 |
|---|---|
| Content type | Professional learning, Article or research |
| Format | Web page |
| Core and overarching concepts | Computational thinking, Algorithms, Implementation (programming) |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI10P05
Design algorithms involving logical operators and represent them as flowcharts and pseudocode
AC9TDI10K02
Represent documents online as content (text), structure (markup) and presentation (styling) and explain why such representations are important
AC9TDI10P06
Validate algorithms and programs by comparing their output against a range of test cases |
| Keywords | abstraction, decomposition |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge and Raspberry Pi Foundation |
| Copyright | © University of Cambridge and Raspberry Pi Foundation. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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