Types of computational thinking

• DECOMPOSITION


  Breaks the problem into smaller parts to solve it
• ALGORITHMS (thinking procedurally)


  A specific order to solve the task
• ABSTRACTION (thinking abstractly)


  Getting rid of the details that are not necessarily part of the problem. The distractions
• PATTERN RECOGNITION


  The brain is trained to recognize different patterns because the "human" has seen it several times.
• THINKING AHEAD


  Planning in advance, knowing what will happen and at what time
• THINKING LOGICALLY


  If...Then...Because. Hypothesis type thinking
• THINKING CONCURRENTLY


  Doing a number of things at the same time. Multi-tasking. Things running at the same time. (being able to deal with changes)
• THINKING RECURSIVELY


  Using the same things more than once.

  ex. ask a friend to invite their friend that will also invite another friend.