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Computational Thinking

Computational Thinking Skills Problem Solving Abstraction Creativity Collaboration Implementation

Analytical Thinking Skills Problem Solving

Problem Solving & Analytical Thinking Skills Sequential Processing Parallel Processing Looping Conditional Logic Pattern Recognition Decomposition  sequential-1

Problem Solving & Analytical Thinking Skills Sequential Processing Parallel Processing Looping Conditional Logic Pattern Recognition Decomposition  looping-1

Problem Solving & Analytical Thinking Skills Sequential Processing Parallel Processing Looping Conditional Logic Pattern Recognition Decomposition  conditional-2

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Abstraction Abstraction reduces information and detail to facilitate focus on relevant concepts (AP Computer Science Principles, College Board) When we create a virtual dog, for example, we do not try to simulate everything about a dog down it’s cells and molecules. We choose the specific features that we need for our purposes to keep things simple and focused.

Creativity

Collaboration

Scratch

AppInventor

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Introducing AP Computer Science Principles History Big Ideas and Computational Thinking practices Projects and Assessments in the classroom

APCS Principles Big Ideas Computing is a creative activity Abstraction reduces information and detail to facilitate focus on relevant concepts Data and information facilitate the creation of knowledge Algorithms are used to develop and express solutions to computational problems Programming enables problem solving human expression, and creation of knowledge The Internet pervades modern computing Computing has global impacts

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